12/27 That was honest of him, and like him; another would have pretended he had thought of it earlier, and was keeping it back for a surprise. He nearly got it back, though, for a moment when Marget came and praised him and thanked him and couldn't keep him from seeing how proud she was of him. The astrologer went off dissatisfied and cursing, and Solomon Isaacs gathered up the money and carried it away. It was Father Peter's for good and all, now. I judged that he had spirited himself away to the jail to tell the prisoner the news; and in this I was right. |