In another minute, the tramp of horses' feet told that the perpetrators of the outrage had effected their escape. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of determined women at war with the universe. "Brother," cried Lady Trafford, her eye blazing with unnatural light, and her cheek suffused with a crimson stain: "Brother," she cried, lifting her thin fingers towards Heaven, "as God shall judge me, I was wedded to that murdered man!" "A lie!" ejaculated Sir Rowland, furiously; "a black, and damning lie!" "It is the truth," replied his sister, falling backwards upon the couch. He shook his head. Mother! do you know what you do? Would you sell yourself to this fiend?" "I would sell myself, body and soul, to save you," rejoined his mother, bursting from his grasp. "A miserly old woman. Oh, the scent of the flowers that day, the delicious quiet, the swallows that dived before us in the river. For a time she looked at no more apartments, and walked through gaunt and ill-cleaned streets, through the sordid under side of life, perplexed and troubled, ashamed of her previous obtuseness. "Thames Darrell once destroyed," pursued Jonathan. He laughed at her heartily, and she laughed too as she had not for a year. " "Of what am I accused?" asked Thames, who though a good deal alarmed at first, had now regained his courage. " "I'll see where these footsteps lead to," said Blueskin, holding the light to the floor.
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