Perhaps that was why Sheila began to observe Lucy, because both of them were poignantly aware of Lucy’s otherness. A momentary petrifaction, and terror had lent wings to her feet. Here was a poor half-naked creature, with a straw crown on his head, and a wooden sceptre in his hand, seated on the ground with all the dignity of a monarch on his throne. . He had a flattish, perhaps, it should be called, a flattened nose, and a brown, leathernlooking hide, that seemed as if it had not unfrequently undergone the process of tanning. ‘And you, my girl, if you’d been born at all, would have been just what you think you are. Two packets were committed to your charge, which you undertook to deliver,—one to another priest, Sir Rowland's chaplain, at Manchester, the other to Mr. Ruth met him in the hall as he was following his family into the dining room. Bribed by a certain Sir Rowland Trenchard, Jonathan kidnapped the carpenter's adopted son, Thames Darrell, and placed him in the hands of a Dutch Skipper, with orders to throw him overboard when he got out to sea; and though this was proved as clear as day, the rascal managed matters so adroitly, and gave such a different complexion to the whole affair, that he came off with flying colours. But though the shot took effect, as was evident from the stains on the ground, the villain escaped.
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