If ever
the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then
understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. The coachman
answered by a surly grunt, and, plying his whip with redoubled zeal, shaped his
course down Dyot Street; traversed that part of Holborn, which is now called
Broad Street, and where two ancient alms-houses were, then, standing in the
middle of that great thoroughfare, exactly opposite the opening of Compston
Street; and, diving under a wide gateway on the left, soon reached a more open
space, surrounded by mean habitations, coach-houses and stables, called
Kendrick Yard, at the further end of which Saint Giles's round-house was
situated. "
"You're a noble-hearted little fellow, Thames," rejoined Wood, casting a look of
pride and affection at his adopted son, whose head he gently patted; "and give
promise of a glorious manhood. She had better escape if she can. . "
"Ay, marry," replied Wood, with a look that seemed to say that he did not think it
required any surprising skill in the art of divination to predict the doom of the
individual in question; but whatever opinion he might entertain, he contented
himself with inquiring into the grounds of the conjuror's evil augury respecting
the infant. "Heaven
be praised, I am not the son of a nobleman. There is nothing but your pride which stands between us. "I should think so," responded the lethargic turnkey, with a yawn. Presently he resumed: “I believe I must be in love. He embraced her fully. "One word before we part, adorable girl—
only one," he continued, detaining her.
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