’ ‘Glad you’re so sanguine,’ interrupted Captain Roding. It appears that he was an unsuccessful admirer of the lady in question, and he admits that, under the influence of drink, he broke into her rooms, and there made a determined attempt at suicide. ’ Chapter Six Creeping along the dark narrow passage, with lantern held well ahead to keep her step steady on the uneven stones—and to warn her of the advent of rats— Melusine kept her long petticoats fastidiously clear of the dirt with an efficient hand, a habit she had learned in the convent. ’ ‘Get on, Hilary, do,’ begged Lucilla. " "Do not distress him, dear father," said Winifred; "he suffers deeply. You will stop at once. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. ” “But Hainault—was—a pal. ” He shook her hands off almost roughly. . "Farewell!" cried Jack, embracing them. She had never been there before at that hour, in that light, and it seemed to her as if she came to it all for the first time. At this place of refuge, situated in the heart of Wapping, near the river-side, he arrived in less than an hour, in a complete state of exhaustion. Whatever may happen to-morrow I shall be none the better for anticipating its miseries to-day. As he anticipated, he was here comparatively screened from the fury of the wind; and when he gazed upon the roaring fall beneath him, visible through the darkness in a glistening sheet of foam, his heart overflowed with gratitude for his providential deliverance.
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