"He hears me not! he's gone!" she added, as the door was opened and shut with violence; "something tells me I shall never see him again!" When her father, a moment afterwards, issued from the parlour to ascertain the cause of the noise, he found her seated on the stairs, in an agony of grief. "I don't deserve it," he said, at length; "but I would have risked a thousand deaths to enjoy this moment's happiness. ***** In the daytime the streets of the ancient city of Canton are yet filled with the original confusion—human beings in quest of food. The roofs and gables of many of the houses had been torn off. An unwelcome idea came to him. Traversing Angel Court, and Green Arbour Court,—celebrated as one of Goldsmith's retreats,—he speedily reached Seacoal Lane, and pursuing the same course, which he and Thames had formerly taken, arrived at the yard at the back of Jonathan's habitation. The three young men exchanged expressive glances. "'Sblood! what's this!" cried Jonathan, in the utmost surprise. ‘Odd sort of a nun. Shoplatch. But what if she were to marry? He glanced towards the elderly dame and found her watching him, the dimple very much in evidence. Here it is. But you belong to me—and I want you. With me behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose.
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