He—In fact, he—he locked me in my room. But the figure was evidently too intent on peering within the ballroom to pay any attention to what might be occurring outside. His manner, however, was as stern and haughty as ever, and his glances retained their accustomed fire. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. For aught I know, they may be in the neighbourhood at this moment. The birds were singing blithely amid the trees,—the lowing of the cows resounded from the yard,—a delicious perfume from the garden was wafted through the open window,—at a distance, the church-bells of Willesden were heard tolling for evening service. ‘I have a very good mind to do so, imbecile. Taking up a link, which was blazing beside him, he walked across the room; and touching a spring in the wall, a secret door flew open. The world had grown dark and wide, and she was very small. I’ll give you, say, thirty-five guineas a week clear of expenses, and half of anything you earn above the two turns a night. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to be turned to account hereafter.
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