It has been already intimated that Jack had an
excessive passion for finery; and it might have been added, that the chief part of
his ill-gotten gains was devoted to the embellishment of his person. A single blanket constituted his sole covering at night. As to Thames, though deeply and painfully affected by the
horrible occurrence that had marked his return to his old friends, he was yet able
to control his feelings, and devote himself to the alleviation of the distress of the
more immediate sufferers by the calamity. "
There were two Condemned Holds,—one for each sex. The flowers and turf, a wild
strawberry, a rare butterfly, and suchlike little intimate things had become more
interesting than mountains. “Sufficient unto me is the
change thereof,” he said, with all the effect of an epigram. And Miss Miniver fell discussing
whether Goopes or Bernard Shaw or Tolstoy or Doctor Tumpany or Wilkins the
author had the more powerful and perfect mind in existence at the present time. I am really in earnest. You did not say a word about it last week, nor have
you written. Yet here you are,
and at precisely the right moment, too. There are the packets
which my Captain hazarded his life to procure for you, and which he said would
establish your right to the estates of the Trenchard family. Meanwhile, the clergyman, bare-headed and in his surplice, advanced to meet
them.
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