Their momentary absence seemed to have worked wonders; for now the most perfect understanding appeared to subsist between them. Reconnoitring them through a small grated loophole, he refused to open the door till they had explained their business. He was conscious of a peculiar pleasure in sitting there and thinking of those few hours which already were becoming to assume a definite importance in his mind—a place curiously apart from those dry-as-dust images which had become the gods of his prosaic life. You know that, and I know that, though we might be put to it to find a reason why. After all, it came to him suddenly as a harsh discovery that she might be in a sense regarded as grownup. Every time he left a room, she chastised herself bitterly for her own profound weakness. " "There's a funny idea in my head. The brain tires of resistance, and when it meets again and again, incoherently active, the same phrases, the same ideas that it has already slain, exposed and dissected and buried, it becomes less and less energetic to repeat the operation. " "But, mother, mayn't I sit up to see whether Thames returns?" implored Winifred. Take care of yourselves, gentlemen, and your governor will take care of you. " "No doubt," he replied. By some it was affirmed that a subterranean communication existed between the thief-taker's abode and Newgate, by means of which he was enabled to maintain a secret correspondence with the imprisoned felons: by others, that an under-ground passage led to extensive vaults, where such malefactors as he chose to screen from justice might lie concealed till the danger was blown over. He yelled to her, asking her if she wished to have a drink with him, which she refused.
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