Chapter XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR JOHN Sir John looked from one to the other of the two sisters. The cause of this uproar was soon manifest. The constable, Sharples, is in my pay. The real tragedy—which he sensed and toward which he was always reaching—eluded all his verbal skill. He had invited himself to dine with her merely to watch her table manners. She found presently she was out of the dock and confronted with the alternative of being bound over in one surety for the sum of forty pounds— whatever that might mean or a month’s imprisonment. Contests were held every year, the type of which depended on her caprice. Rotten, and covered with a thick coat of dirt, the boards of the floor presented a very insecure footing; the bare walls were scored all over with grotesque designs, the chief of which represented the punishment of Nebuchadnezzar.
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