She forgot her vital hatred of the South Seas; she forgot that McClintock's would not differ a jot from the old island she had for ever left behind her; she forgot all the doctor's lessons and warnings. Just as the clergyman approached the altar, she perceived a boy steal quickly into the church, and ensconce himself behind the woollen-draper, who, in order to carry on his amatory pursuits with greater convenience, and at the same time display his figure (of which he was not a little vain) to the utmost advantage, preferred a standing to a sitting posture. William Kneebone was a woollen-draper of "credit and renown," whose place of business was held at the sign of the Angel (for, in those days, every shop had its sign), opposite Saint Clement's church in the Strand. All this was the work of a minute. On this side stood the instruments with which the latter piece of pleasantry had been effected,—namely, a bucket filled with paint and a brush: on that was erected a trophy, consisting of a watchman's rattle, a laced hat, with the crown knocked out, and its place supplied by a lantern, a campaign wig saturated with punch, a torn steen-kirk and ruffles, some halfdozen staves, and a broken sword. Then came the cable that you were in Canton, ill, but not dangerously so. But the mere recognition of his son’s signature was enough to stoke the fires of his long-held rage. It is the same man, for he raved in the hospital, and they fetched me. He would know her address to-morrow. ’ It’s a duplicate of the French one. Gianfrancesco took her that night gently, for which she was glad. "I am quite easy now; receive my blessing, my dear son; and if we never meet again, rest assured my last prayer shall be for you. "Aren't you afraid?" "Of what?"—serenely. " "Can I trust him?" mused Jack. Give him this letter, child, and bid him take it to the Lodge at Newgate without loss of time.
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