Swiftly following the sound of knocking, she crossed right and passed through a door near the windows—and found herself in the bookroom. “I want to ask you a question,” she said abruptly. In consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the metropolis. As she looked in this direction, the thief-taker raised his eyes—those gray, blood-thirsty eyes!—their glare froze the life-blood in her veins. Most of their relics are in yonder cases; but I don't remember that any of them have disturbed my rest. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. He depended upon her, for his medicine, for his drink, for the little amusement it was now permissible to give him. The darkness prevented the carpenter from discerning the features or figure of the stranger; and the ceaseless din precluded the possibility of holding any communication by words with him. . The knight mechanically complied with his request. Danger, in the form he apprehended, was lurking outside: nor was he destined to enjoy long repose. She described it so vividly. But it is not entirely without hope, for perhaps they may find some succour with Charvill.
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