It was only a matter of time. A crutch, with a silver handle, stood by her side, proving the state of extreme debility to which she was reduced. His grey eyes burned under his shaggy eyebrows. Annabel lounged in her chair with a sort of insolent abandon in her pose, and wide-open eyes which never flinched or drooped. “Come,” he said, “this is capital, capital. Gerald switched to French. Before many minutes elapsed, he had picked a large hole in the plaster, which showered down in a cloud of dust; and breaking off several laths, caught hold of a beam, by which he held with one hand, until with the other he succeeded, not without some difficulty, in forcing out one of the tiles. Her eyes were dilated— fixed in a horrified stare at the parting in the curtains which hung before the window. ’ ‘Probably not. At the expiration of an hour, by dint of unremitting exertion, he had made so large a breach in the chimney, that he could stand upright in it. The operation was effected with so much rapidity and so little noise, that even if any one had been on the alert, he could scarcely have detected it. While the watermen were contending with the eddies occasioned by the fall below the bridge, Jonathan observed a perceptible shudder run through Trenchard's frame. But Miss Stanley took no notice of these things. ’ ‘Don’t be too sure,’ said Miss Froxfield darkly, with a mischievous glance at her betrothed. The brain tires of resistance, and when it meets again and again, incoherently active, the same phrases, the same ideas that it has already slain, exposed and dissected and buried, it becomes less and less energetic to repeat the operation.
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