"Well, my dear, I've a proposal to make in regard to this babby of yours, which may, or may not, be agreeable. Thought she was a nun at first. She laughed a little bitterly. In this screen, which masked the entrance of a dark passage communicating with the Condemned Hold, about five feet from the ground, was a hatch, protected by long spikes set six inches apart, and each of the thickness of an elephant's tusk. Some had the dignity and the aloofness of a rock in the sea; and others were as the polished pebbles on the sands—one saw the difference of pebble from pebble only by close scrutiny. With people of that sort all sorts of things may happen. "Vell, vell," growled Sharples, after he had listened to the other's remonstrances, "it shall be done. Warned of the approach of the prisoners by the increased clamour, Sharples, who was busied in distributing the Marquis's donation, affected to throw the remainder of the money among the crowd, though, in reality, he kept back a couple of guineas, which he slipped into his sleeve, and running hastily up the steps, unlocked the door. She made a few protests, a few excuses for her action in accepting him, a few lame explanations, but he did not heed them or care for them. Not if I read her aright. Darkness closed in on them as the officers stepped inside the musty interior.
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