Putting his own construction upon this mute interchange of opinions, Jonathan ventured to observe, that it certainly was a very perplexing case, but that he thought something might be made of it, and, if left to him, he would undertake to manage the matter to the Master's entire satisfaction. For a time her efforts to achieve a comprehensive concentration were dispersed by the passage of the village street of Caddington, the passing of a goggled car-load of motorists, and the struggles of a stable lad mounted on one recalcitrant horse and leading another. She heard them diving after her, and noted their starting eyes as they spied the opened panel. There was an eerie sense of brooding menace about an uninhabited establishment. Their conversation degenerated again and again into a strain of self-congratulation that would have irked an eavesdropper. Thames took it, and beheld the portrait of a young man, apparently—judging from his attire—of high rank, whose proud and patrician features certainly presented a very striking resemblance to his own. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. Ever since the young police officer had arrived on her doorstep the clock had started ticking faster. There were seven tales in all—short stories—a method of expression quite strange to her, after the immense canvases of Dickens and Hugo. The both of them puttering about the tidy two-story house, Lucy would serve them both steaming cups of tea in the front parlor. Ben watched these manoeuvres with great interest, and strained every sinew in his frame to keep ahead of the other boats.
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