‘Where the devil have you been?’ ‘Consorting with a nun in the gardens. He was a thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so. The study seemed absolutely unaltered, there was still the same lamp with a little chip out of the shade, still the same gas fire, still the same bundle of blue and white papers, it seemed, with the same pink tape about them, at the elbow of the arm-chair, still the same father. It contains a thousand pounds; and, if all other schemes fail, I'll engage to free him on the way to Tyburn. The houses overhung in a frightful manner, and looked as if the next gust would precipitate them into the river. It was the very spot from which his poor mother had gazed after her vain attempt to rescue him at the Mint; but, though he was ignorant of this, her image was alone present to him. Woman's love of silk is not set by fashion; it is bred in the bone; and somewhere, somehow, a woman will have her bit of silk. He took his social pleasures once a year in Hong-Kong, after Easter. But she was not to be tempted. With a faint view of overtaking them the pursuer urged his steed to a quicker pace.
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