But to-day he did not get beyond half a dozen desultory start-offs. Sheppard, a matron offered to conduct him to her cell. ’ ‘You saw? Where were you? How did you see?’ ‘Your heroic milice are not as clever as they thought. In short, every contrivance that ingenuity could devise was resorted to by this horde of reprobates to secure themselves from danger or molestation. You know not what a wretched guilty thing I am. Meantime, as the doctor was splitting his breakfast orange, he heard a commotion in his office, two rooms removed: volleys of pidgin English, one voice in protest, the other dominant. ’ ‘Then do it,’ Melusine said with impatience. He knocked on the doorframe. Wood dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion, essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he had well-nigh silenced him most effectually.
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