His diminutive hand flew out from behind his back like a wounded bird. He had adroitly captured her and led her away from her other guests on the pretext of feigning an interest in her charitable attitude to the newly arrived French. "Ja, ja, Muntmeester," said the Dutchman, removing the pipe from his mouth, and speaking in a deep and guttural voice, "leave the affair to Johannes. She glanced at the Frenchman, and found him struggling with the portrait that was embedded around his scalp. She turned back into the hall. Or had she, like himself, been held up until the fellow returned to town? He waited, his ready humour anticipating her likely reaction. Wood was unable to discover the figure of the widow, but he recognised her dry, hacking cough, and was about to call her down, if she could not find the key, as he imagined must be the case, when a loud noise was heard, as though a chest, or some weighty substance, had fallen upon the floor. She had just managed to reach it, grabbing for the handle, when the enemy’s cracked command halted her. Meantime, a change had taken place in the weather. "You hesitate—you are deceiving me. “You would be wise to loosen your purse-strings, Gianfrancesco. He must be more or less of an age with this man. He was also, had she known it, more than a little insincere. To preserve herself, however, from destitution, or what she considered worse, she wedded a journeyman carpenter, named Sheppard.
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