She screamed involuntarily—she had never in her life screamed before—and then she began to wriggle and fight like a frightened animal against the men who were holding her. For the fresh and feverish hue of lip which years ago characterised this feature, was now substituted a pure and wholesome bloom, evincing a total change of habits; and, though the coarse character of the mouth remained, in some degree, unaltered, it was so modified in expression, that it could no longer be accounted a blemish. Suppose he stopped all her allowance, made it imperative that she should either stay ineffectually resentful at home or earn a living for herself at once. The horror of those few minutes was still with her. Something happened down there, and probably I'll never know what. Mother had met with him two years before to begin the process of finding a match. The place pulsed with music too loud to converse above. She was surprised at his modesty. "Tell him that I—his adopted son, Thames Darrell— am detained here by Jonathan Wild. It had been brighter than the rest, for dawn light had come in through high unshuttered casements above the bookshelves. Quite ordinary. Over the mantel, set into an ornately carved panel with fluted columns at each end, was a portrait of a man on horseback.
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