She could run away from him, if she wished, as she had run away from her father; she could carry out the original adventure. ‘Never would he have gone to England. Drummond,” he continued, looking across at his vis-à-vis, “we look to you to give expression to our sentiments. One chance in a thousand, and that would be the girl. From this singular collection Trenchard turned to regard its possessor, who was standing at a little distance from him, still engaged in earnest discourse with his attendant, and, as he contemplated his ruthless countenance, on which duplicity and malignity had set their strongest seals, he could not help calling to mind all he had heard of Jonathan's perfidiousness to his employers, and deeply regretting that he had placed himself in the power of so unscrupulous a miscreant. The coolies proceeded at a swinging, mincing trot, which gave to the suspended seat a dancing action similar to that of a suddenly agitated hangingspring of a birdcage. She was chaffing him about being taken for Meysey Hill, and suggested that he should be presented to me as the millionaire. But on Sunday he had been obliged to attend to certain matters for the nuns. “I am bored,” she said abruptly. " "Not your only chance, Thames," returned Jack, in the same undertone; "but your best. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. “The very question shows your ignorance,” he declared.
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