She caught at the idea. It was not the arrival of the guests, but merely the maid moving about in the hall. Over the chimney-piece was pasted a handbill, purporting to be "The last Dying Speech and Confession of TOM SHEPPARD, the Notorious Housebreaker, who suffered at Tyburn on the 25th of February, 1703. We have known men who have come here for no other purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life, only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne. ’ ‘But what of justice?’ asked Lucilla, evidently dazed. Here was an appalling fact: all her previous loneliness had been trifling beside that which now encompassed her and would for years to come. The action steadied him; and there was a phase of irony, too, that helped. "Do you think I'd take the trouble to announce him? These are persons of consequence, I tell you. She heard the rats scattering across the stone as dirt fell into the crypt.
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