CHAPTER XVI. “You are mistaken, David. She tried gentle words with him, beguiling perfumes, even slipped aphrodisiac tisanes into his soup. Uttering a terrible imprecation, Jonathan snatched up the link, and hastily descended the stairs, leaving the Jew behind him. Wood, who were, furthermore, engaged in a little conjugal tête-à-tête of their own. "Certainly," replied Jonathan, with the most perfect sangfroid, "I'll undertake to free you from the boy. Gosse would have killed me, and perhaps in the fight I might kill him. She was a small blonde, not handsome, but with a flair for fashion demonstrated by her elegant chemise gown in the very latest Canterbury muslin, with its low décolletage barely concealed under a fine lawn handkerchief set about her shoulders, and decorated with a mauve satin sash at the waist. "The ceiling is breaking! the floor is opening! he is coming to me!" cried the unhappy woman. " "Accident or not," rejoined Sheppard; "you're no longer pall of mine. "Were I in your place," said Smith, "I should be apprehensive of Wild, because he's a declared enemy. "You're not out yet, you young hound," rejoined Quilt, striving ineffectually to burst open the door. Capes was an exceptionally fair man of two or three-and-thirty, so ruddily blond that it was a mercy he had escaped light eyelashes, and with a minor but by no means contemptible reputation of his own. He glanced at Ruth (who had stood with her back to the wall, pinned there throughout the contest by terror and the knowledge of her own helplessness), then at the bronze menace, and calculated correctly that this particular adventure was finished. Forgive my daring.
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