Sheppard found it; and, as no one opposed her, she at once took up her abode there; nor was she long in discovering that the dreaded sounds proceeded from the nocturnal gambols of a legion of rats. Nothing could exceed the dismay of these personages when they learnt why they had been summoned. Rowland and his companions instantly started in pursuit, leaving the lady to recover as she might. ‘You wish a life of obedience? So be it, Mademoiselle Charvill. And, if Rachel had not carried a candle, the room would have been plunged in total darkness. For the past four weeks mirrors had been her delight, a new toy. She was aware of people—her aunt, her father, her fellow-students, friends, and neighbors— moving about outside this glowing secret, very much as an actor is aware of the dim audience beyond the barrier of the footlights. ‘You seem to understand the gentry very well. “Good-bye, Miss Pellissier, and success to you,” he said. 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. Are you satisfied?’ Grudgingly, Jack Kimble took back the coins. “What else was I to do?” For some seconds she stood watching him and both were thinking very quickly.
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