“Child! An Oracle is a woman who has had her womb poisoned out of her, a eunuch. It was filled with sopping lichens and green benches too slimy to sit upon. Mercifully, John had been sick for two of the three days of Thanksgiving week, giving her reprieve from both his presence and the machinations of Katy Pfister, who was always less active on days when he was not around. ‘And it is perhaps not so necessary that I do so, because Joan has told me of another who may like to say I am the daughter of Mary Remenham. . To an unthinking mind the episode would be ordinary, trivial; but to the doctor, who had had plenty of time to think during his sojourn in China, it was basic of the child's unhappiness. Presently the odour of burnt powder mingled agreeably with that of the incense. He could not know about the Remenham connection, could he? No one knew but her father and Martha. Fool that I was to part with my lantern! But I'll soon set myself straight. The aspect of the place, so far as he could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later. Before he could recover from the stunning effects of the blow, Wood possessed himself of the child: and, untying the noose which had been slipped round its throat, had the satisfaction of hearing it cry lustily. Then she called a hansom and drove home.
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