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Chapter Two ‘Our French friends are beginning to form quite a little coterie,’ remarked Gerald, covertly studying the group gathered in an alcove at the other side of Lady Bicknacre’s ballroom. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason; together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of boiling tar and oil. This she would not endure. "Before I go," continued Sir Rowland, "I must beg of you to disclose to me all you know relative to the parentage of Thames Darrell. . ‘I begin to ask myself why it is that I wish to become of these people. “Last time I saw you,” he reminded her, “you spoke, did you not, of obtaining some employment in London. Even Capes had been for her merely an excitant to passionate love—a mere idol at whose feet one could enjoy imaginative wallowings. I am your first, of course you feel strongly. What was to hinder me, if I had been so inclined, from directing them to your retreat?" "Enough," replied Darrell. ‘Which is why I feel sure he will utterly repulse the girl, even if she is his granddaughter. " "But she would understand you; whereas she will never understand her father.
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