The walls were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid across joint-stools. She was marvellously pretty, but he was not quite sure—yet—that it was advisable for him to sit with her in so public a place. She found a little difficulty in beginning. Then, in a few years, he and Ruth might fare forth in comfort and security. . After all, what can it matter? It was just to make sure. She tried not to notice how much attention Martin Chen had been paying her, but he had been bold enough to speak to her the other day. It was maddening to be made to feel that he was in any way the inferior of this cool, self-possessed young woman, whose eyes seemed for a moment to scintillate with scorn. “Gods,” she said, at last, “I’ve done it this time!” “Well!” She took up the neat morocco purse, opened it, and examined the contents. The candles—for McClintock never used oil in his dining room—were burning low in the sconces. ‘But for now, I’m taking you home. He next twisted the heavy gyves round and round, and partly by main strength, partly by a dexterous and well-applied jerk, sapped asunder the central link by which they were attached to the padlock. Marvel, who had been a little discomposed by the treatment he had experienced on Holborn Hill, very composedly filled and lighted his pipe.
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