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. The agonized mother could scarcely repress a scream at the spectacle that met her gaze. “No, John, you won’t understand. Conceiving himself called upon, as the intimate friend of the deceased, to pay this last tribute of respect to her memory, he appeared as one of the chief mourners. And Doctor Ralph stood by looking considerate. He would condemn her to the vengeance of the mob all for refusing to marry him. Jonathan, however, paid no sort of attention to this demonstration of hatred. Dinner was quite uneventful. ’ Melusine’s eyes misted. But he had shown no desire for information, no curiosity. , you know, fair and square. She slipped it calmly into her pocket.
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