Yet was it likely in that case that he should be able to employ Gines and his associate, who had just been his instruments of violence upon my person?

For the smoke be steam an' nothin' more But what hav' 'ee done wi' the En-gine?'" And the firemen, by shouting it as heartily as the rest, robbed the epigram of all its sting.

By a sort of miraculous accident she had observed Gines following her in the street.

Mr. Falkland had taken the infernal Gines into his pay, a man critically qualified for the service in which he was now engaged, by the unfeeling brutality of his temper, by his habits of mind at once audacious and artful, and by the peculiar animosity and vengeance he had conceived against me.