” Drummond looked up with mock eagerness. "Won't you take these?" For a space he merely stared at her, perhaps wondering if she were real. . ‘Alors, what advantages?’ ‘But think,’ he said earnestly, moving a little closer. The man asked twelve guineas, but after a little bargaining, he came down to ten. ’ Lucilla eyed him with one of those particularly feminine looks it was difficult for a mere male to interpret. Too intent on her search, and convinced besides that she was quite alone, she had been an easy prey. He could not move; but stood like one stupified, with his hands clasped together, and eyes almost starting out of their sockets, fixed upon his unfortunate parent. A dark mass of wreckage, over which hung a slight mist of vapour, lay half in the ditch, half across the hedge, close under a tree from the trunk of which the bark had been torn and stripped. Blueskin drew the knife across his throat a second time, widening and deepening the wound; and wrenching back the head to get it into a more favourable position, would infallibly have severed it from the trunk, if the officers, who by this time had recovered from their terror, had not thrown themselves upon him, and withheld him. Wood grasped his companion's arm to attract his attention to this unexpected means of escape. The costume of this personage was somewhat singular, and might have passed for a masquerading habit, had not the imperturbable gravity of his demeanour forbidden any such supposition.
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