"The idea of a Malay, born Mahometan, being reared in the Vatican, hit me as funny. Maggot, dealing him a buffet that sent him reeling several yards backwards. " "Not I," replied Jack; "I'm too comfortable where I am. 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. “My sister,” she murmured, “is so independent. She’s very special. “Well,” he said, argumentatively, “it IS. " "That was my doing, dearest," urged the carpenter; "I was afraid if you saw her that some such scene as this might occur. He, a Chinaman, troubling himself over Occidental ideas! With his hands in his sleeves, he proceeded on his way. A chill ran through his frame, and, grasping the heavy weapon with which chance had provided him, prepared to strike down the first person who should enter the cell. While Thames modestly expressed a hope that he might not belie the carpenter's favourable prediction, Jack Sheppard thought fit to mount a small ladder placed against the wall, and, springing with the agility of an ape upon a sort of frame, contrived to sustain short spars and blocks of timber, began to search about for a piece of wood required in the work on which he was engaged. CHAPTER XVIII.
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