"A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. "If you are in earnest, Thames," she replied, with a look of gentle reproach, "you are very foolish; and, if in jest, very cruel. Chapter XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR JOHN Sir John looked from one to the other of the two sisters. “Odd!” she said. Past her shot the little old lady in the bonnet, running incredibly fast, but otherwise still alertly respectable, and she was making a strange threatening sound as she ran, such as one would use in driving ducks out of a garden—“B-rr-r-r-r—!” and pawing with black-gloved hands. This niggardliness compelled him to cross and recross streets. “Well!” she declared good-humouredly. "Arrest!" "Jigger closed!" shouted a hoarse voice in reply. It was a bogus affair altogether, kept by some blackguard or other of an Englishman. He was a philosopher. So he shut his eyes. More than ever a sense of confusion was upon Ennison. Every window, from the groundfloor to the garret had its occupant, and the roofs were covered with spectators.
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