The String of Pearls; or, The Barber of Fleet Street — page 70: what you’re looking at

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THE STRING OF PEARLS. an ———— eee aes aaa eS — oS ee. ships of a more permanent and stable character than the old ones, which have all. yt EE ang LO ee eee et ae: Hone a proved so false to me; and, in the meantime, I’ll make and eat pies as fast as I v Hie can.” Bi: Ae ihe i ae CHAPTER XII. a , ve THE RESOLUTION COME TO BY JOHANNA OAKLEY. , F- a Tae beautiful Johanna—when in obedience to the command of her father she By ae left him, and begged him (the beef-eater) to manage matters with the Rev. Mr, Br att Lupin—did not proceed directly up stairs to her apartment, but lingered on the | ; Pit | staircase to hear what ensued ; and if anything in her dejected state of mind could | ML have given her amusement, it would certainly have been the way in which the } b ei beef-eater exacted a retribution from the reverend personage, who was not likely aie again to intrude himself into the house of the spectacle-maker. But when he was a | gone, and she heard that a sort of peace had been patched up with her mother-—a | mi peace which, from her knowledge of the high contracting parties, she conjectured ! i ni would not last long—she returned to her room, and locked herself in; so that if | | |i bee ne any attempt were made to “a her down to partake of the supper, it might be sup- | te ae posed she was asleep, for she felt herself totally unequal to the task of making | dog NW one in any party, however much she might respect the individual members that | i composed it. And she did respect Ben the beef-eater; for she had a tively recol- | { lection of much kindness from him during her early years, and she knew that S| tem he had never come to the house when she was a child without bringing her batt some token of his regard in the shape of a plaything, or some little ; line 4 article of doll’s finery, which at that time was very precious. She > | mt : was not wrong in her conjectures that Ben would make an attempt to get her || ness ai down stairs, for her father came up at the beef-eater’s request, and tapped at her i with ali door. She thought the best plan, as indeed it was, would be to make no answer, ae. SHE so that the old spectacle-maker concluded at once what she wished him to con- | Oe i | elude, namely, that she had gone to sleep; and he walked quietly down the stairs | | fv again, glad that he had not disturbed her, and told Ben as much. Now, feeling mir herself quite secure from interruption for the night, Johanna did not attempt to nev seek repose, but set herself seriously to reflect upon what had occurred. She loa | almost repeated to herself, word for word, what Colonel Jeffery had told her; like and, as she revolved the matter over and over again in her brain, a strange thought | © lhe took possession of her, which she could not banish, and which, when once it found | a home within her breast, began to gather probability from every slight cireum- ‘ stance that was in any way connected with it. This thought, strange as it may | one appear, was, that the Mr. Thornhill, of whom Colonel Jeffery spoke in terms of las such high eulogium, was no other than Mark Ingestrie himself. It is astonishing, | ut MP when once a thought occurs to the mind, that makes a strong impression, how, ty (iy with immense rapidity, a rush of evidence will appear. to come to support ay" ao it. And thus it was with regard to this supposition. of Johanna Qakley. She , it iy immediately remembered a host of little things which favoured the idea; and ‘ among the rest, she fully recollected that Mark in estrie had told her he meant to " change his name when he left Kngland; for that he wished her and her only to H know anything of him, or what had become of him; and that his intention was , | to baffle inquiry, in case it should be made, particularly by Mr. Grant, towards | J whom he felt a far greater amount of indignation, than the circumstances at all ] warranted him in feeling. Then she recollected all that Colonel Jeffery had said with regard to the galiant and noble conduct of this Mr. Thornhill, and, girl like, Hy she thought that those high and noble qualities could surely belong to no one but ae her own lover, to such an extent; and that, therefore, Mr. Thornhill and Mark Hy | Ingestrie must be one and the same person, Over and over again, she regretted