CHAPTER XXVII His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent thought. She had dreaded the beginning of this hour. His interest was divided: while his ears drank in the sounds, his glance constantly roved from Ruth to the performer and back to Ruth. He lives in constant dread of a reappearance of ‘La Belle Alcide,’ and hearing it said that she is his wife’s sister. But he did not follow on with the thought. It was the only way to make the monthly bills. At this moment, the bell began to toll in a peculiar manner, announcing the approach of the corpse. “Too greasy for me. Her tone should have warned him, but he was too much in earnest to regard it. At the first glance, he imagined he must have stumbled upon a museum of rarities, there were so many glass-cases, so many open cabinets, ranged against the walls; but the next convinced him that if Jonathan was a virtuoso, his tastes did not run in the ordinary channels. It did not cheer or fortify him with false courage and recklessness; it simply enveloped him in a mist of unreality. I have fulfilled my part of our marriage contract. "What the devil are you howling about?" cried Langley. A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore —embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of watermen.
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