With this
view, Jack was carried—for he was no longer able to move without assistance—
to a ward called the Castle, situated over the gateway on the western side, in
what was considered the strongest part of the jail. ’
He made a pretence of rising and making a sortie to the corner to see if anyone
was there. Interrogation takes many
forms, you know, Lucy. He became ugly and monstrous, dunning her, threatening her,
assailing her. This gentleman, tried for high treason, in 1716, on suspicion of aiding
Mr. ‘Well then, Melusine,’ he said calmly, ‘it seems as if we must get you your
dowry willy-nilly. . ‘Do that again,’ he said softly, ‘and I’ll make you sorry you ever came to
England. Like the Castle, which it
resembled in all respects except that it was destitute even of a barrack-bedstead,
the Red Room was reserved for state-prisoners, and had not been occupied since
the year 1716, when the jail, as has before been mentioned, was crowded by the
Preston rebels. “I think, aunt,” she said, “you might trust to my self-respect to keep me
out of that. I'll call for you after
lunch. Having made a tolerably good meal upon the loaf, overcome by fatigue, Jack
turned into a barn in Stoke Newington, and slept till late in the day, when he
awakened much refreshed. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous.
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