Jack was caught, as in a trap, by the pendant tails of Abraham's long frock; and, instead of obtaining his release by his ingenuity, he only got a sound thrashing. The lady looked them over in silence, and then pouting lips trembled, dark eyelashes fluttered, and in a broken voice, she pleaded, ‘Honoured messieurs, you will not allow this—this pig, to be thus cruel? He cannot arrest me. The sharp point of the sword at the girl’s throat bit sideways. All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely against the reserve he had set between them. Jonathan looked in that direction, and beheld the fugitives riding off in triumph. “Very well,” said Ann Veronica, with an air of concluding the discussion. Excited by the scene, Jack, however, could pay little attention to the good man's discourse, and was lost in a whirl of tumultuous emotions.
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