Poor
girl! she was beautiful once; so beautiful as to make me, who care little for the
allurements of women, fancy myself enamoured of her. ”
“God send you may never repent it!” cried Capes. ”
“I suppose so. This discovery made, I hastened back to
London to offer you my hand, but found you had married in the mean time a
smock-faced, smooth-tongued carpenter named Sheppard. I have always hated it. “I went to
Anna’s rooms because I felt that I must see her. By the time she arrived at the Beck’s doorstep, the
morning was risen. The stage manager reappeared presently, and made a speech. It was really very
jolly to talk to a man in this way—who saw the woman in her and did not treat
her as a child. His
attraction for her was now written plainly on his freckled
face, revealed by the many drinks he had imbibed. “What are you doing here? How dare you come to my
rooms!”
The man stepped into the middle of the room. She had asked about that already, and her father had replied, evasively: “We’ll
have to see about that, little Vee; we’ll have to see about that. "Aha!" exclaimed Jack, with a roguish wink, "I've caught you,—have I?"
The carpenter's daughter was fair and free—
Fair, and fickle, and false, was she!
She slighted the journeyman, (meaning me!)
And smiled on a gallant of high degree. This laughter released something that had been striving for expression—her own
natural buoyancy.
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