It was lent me by a countryman o' mine; but I paid him back in his own coin—ha! ha!" "A countryman of yours, Terry?" "Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt—more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis of Slaughterford, belike?" "Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of your tribe, and the idol of the girls!" "That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. The thought caused him an odd kind of pang—of pity, naturally. “Lucy, my brother is home and I borrowed the cash from him. As usual the substantive sister—Prudence—did all the talking for the pair; Angelina, the shadow, offered only her submitting nods. “Well,” he said slowly, “I had met you three times—before Drummond’s dinner. Glancing around his prison, he began to think it possible he might effect an escape from it. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure! but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. He shot at me at the ‘Unusual,’ and the magistrates bound him over to keep the peace. Heedless, however, of the consequences, he pursued his task. He moved, after quiet intervals, with a quick little movement, and ever and again stroked his small mustache and coughed a selfconscious cough. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent.
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