For the Term of His Natural Life. Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
and marched down the passage as calmly as though she had been Amadis of Gaul himself.
Frere, gaining his room choking with laughter, opened the folded paper by the light of the tallow candle, and read, in a quaint, childish hand:—
SIR—I have struck you. I apologize in writing. Your humble servant to command, SYLVIA VICKERS.
“I wonder what book she took that out of?” he said. “'Pon my word she must be a little cracked. 'Gad, it's a queer life for a child in this place, and no mistake.”
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