253 < 32 > LUCY GOES TO DINNER Mike and Lucy trudged over to the Vorsack’s house. "No," rejoined Thames, "I won't be treated like a common felon, if I can help it. . ” The figure of her aunt, a little distant, a little propitiatory, behind the coffee things, filled her with a sense of almost catastrophic adventure. A few feet away, across the low vases of pink and white roses, sat Annabel, more beautiful to-night perhaps than ever before in her life. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. When Capes glanced up at them for a moment, Manning seemed to be holding his arms all about her, and there was nothing but quiet acquiescence in her bearing. For she needed him. " "In case of need you will lend a helping hand?" "Yes—yes. His heart beat wildly and he was afraid lest the strain be too much; but the girl shook her head and smiled and pointed to the top of the mountain. Take me! take me!" "Before an hour you shall be mine," said Jonathan advancing towards her. Such was the terror inspired by Wild's vindictive character, that few durst face him who had given him cause for displeasure. "But to the point," continued Wild, unconscious of the peril in which the remark had placed him,—"to the point. Be a good wife to him.
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