‘Perhaps she don’t understand English,’ suggested Roding. ‘Gérard—’ ‘What now?’ he asked, rife with suspicion. The girl only smiled at him serenely, but she laid her hand for a moment quietly upon his. Capes was rather a discovery. Efforts were made to staunch his wounds and surgical assistance sent for. "Where am I?" she cried, passing her hand across her brow. " "We may believe as much of that as we please, I suppose," observed the carpenter's wife, with a sneer. Wood was unable to discover the figure of the widow, but he recognised her dry, hacking cough, and was about to call her down, if she could not find the key, as he imagined must be the case, when a loud noise was heard, as though a chest, or some weighty substance, had fallen upon the floor. He remained standing by the stem of the proa, his glance roving investigatingly. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably, by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. All that was needed to complete the simile was that the girl should burst into song. After repeatedly trying to remove the plate, which was so firmly screwed down that it resisted all his efforts, and vainly attempting to pick it with the spike and nail; he, at length, after half an hour's ineffectual labour, wrenched off the box by means of the iron bar, and the door, as he laughingly expressed it, "became his humble servant.
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