Just as the clergyman approached the altar, she perceived a boy steal quickly into the church, and ensconce himself behind the woollen-draper, who, in order to carry on his amatory pursuits with greater convenience, and at the same time display his figure (of which he was not a little vain) to the utmost advantage, preferred a standing to a sitting posture. A florid-looking young woman rose up and accosted him eagerly. Melusine’s heart jumped and she felt heat rising into her cheeks. "Do not endanger yourself on my account," rejoined his mother. “I am frightened now. "I am," replied Jonathan, following him, "and so," he added in an undertone, "are your captors. It was approached from the street by a flight of broad stone steps, leading to a ponderous door, plated with iron, and secured on the inner side by huge bolts, and a lock, with wards of a prodigious size. His first reaction had been explosive as the hurts of the past rose up to taunt him. The minute he discovers Roding here, he’ll know something is up. He stared at the woman depicted thereon for a long moment, awe in his head. ’ She let out a peal of laughter. And the sergeant, having carried out all Melusine’s instructions as if they had come out of his own head, went up to check on his patient, apparently at last convinced that his prisoner would not attempt to run away. Warding off the blows as well as he could with the bar, Jack struck both the horses on the head, and the animals plunged so violently, that they not only prevented their riders from assailing him, but also kept off the hostlers; and, in the confusion that ensued, Jack managed to spring over the fence, and shaped his course across the field in the direction of Sir John Oldcastle's.
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