“The fact is—I don’t know why—this takes me by surprise. " With no little effort—for the right words had a way of tumbling back out of reach—he marshalled his phrases, and as he uttered them, closed his eyes to lessen the possibility of a break. A cat came and rubbed herself against him as he entered the house, and seemed by her mewing to ask him for food. It was warm, shielding, comforting, and what was more, full of understanding. “I say!” he said, without any movement. “You seem to have come from Miss Pellissier’s rooms. They seemed to her that morning to be all armed with nets and prepared to throw them over her directly her movements became in any manner truly free. Arrived at her side, it was soon evident, from the throng of seamen in Dutch dresses that displayed themselves, that her crew were on the alert, and a rope having been thrown down to the skipper, he speedily hoisted himself on deck. A dog appeared unexpectedly upon the threshold. He had assumed that her leaving home was the point at issue, that everything turned on that, and that the sole alternative was obedience, and she had fallen in with that assumption until rebellion seemed a sacred principle. Tell me why you ran away from the convent. It was exactly as Sebastian had foreseen. But he had scarcely advanced a step, when he was felled to the ground by a blow from the powerful arm of Kneebone, who, instantly possessing himself of a pistol, levelled it at Jackson's head.
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