E. Brown was no fool, and he understood the sudden onus of the other children to share the limelight. She was alone with a deadly enemy. “What is the good of pretending?” she said. Wood was heard without, angrily demanding admittance. The only safe place for him is at sea; and if he had kept to the sea, I shouldn't have found him so easily. And they could talk, they found; and never once, it seemed, did their meaning and intention hitch. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. The commissionaire smiled. On the right of the postern against the wall was affixed a small grating, sustaining the debtor's box; and any pleasure which the passerby might derive from contemplating the splendid structure above described was damped at beholding the pale faces and squalid figures of the captives across the bars of its strongly-grated windows. It is absolutely a frightful neighbourhood, this. ‘I begin to ask myself why it is that I wish to become of these people. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost glad it had been reached.
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