“But this is a surprise!” said Ramage. She was saying good-bye to childhood and home, and her making; she was going out into the great, multitudinous world; this time there would be no returning. You are afraid—that here in London—I shall not be a success. Louis the Fourteenth yet lived, and expectations were, therefore, indulged of assistance from France. He had been reading Belfort Bax, and declared himself a convert. "And now," she added, with somewhat more composure, "leave me, dear friends, I entreat, for a few minutes to collect my scattered thoughts—to prepare myself for what I have to go through—to pray for my son. My feelings overpower me. Nothing disheartened by this survey, Jack set to work upon the lock, which he attacked with all his implements;—now attempting to pick it with the nail;— now to wrench it off with the bar: but all without effect. Had I not known that you and your affianced bride are dearer to him than life I should have used this money to secure my own safety. Only in her eyes there seemed to be some apprehension of the fact that the young man’s clothes and manners were alike undesirable things. "And when I further tell you," continued Jack, "that, after yourself and my mother, I am the next heir to the estates of my grandfather, Sir Montacute Trenchard, you will perhaps own that my caution is sufficiently disinterested.
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