Lucy had baked the apple and
pumpkin pies, carefully molding the flour crusts and
adding extra teaspoonfuls of allspice and cinnamon while
no one looked. The
bolder members in the House left their places to go lobbyward, grinning. “Would YOU like us—if some one told you the bare outline of our story?—
and what we are doing?”
“I shouldn’t mind,” said Ann Veronica. Wood was scarcely seated before Mr. Lad, I admire you even in your folly. ”
She marked an hotel that seemed neither opulent nor odd in a little side street
opening on the Embankment, made up her mind with an effort, and, returning by
Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo, took a cab to this chosen refuge with her two
pieces of luggage. Of course there were goats. This, Wood, acting upon Terry's caution,
was most unwilling to do; but, finding he had no alternative, he reluctantly made
known his errand and the bolts were undrawn. There are some papers I have to look through to-night—important
papers. There was
a gulf of eight years between her and the youngest of her brace of sisters—an
impassable gulf inhabited chaotically by two noisy brothers. At the period of this history, the main streets of the metropolis were but
imperfectly lighted, while the less-frequented avenues were left in total
obscurity; but, even at the present time, the maze of courts and alleys into which
Wild now plunged, would have perplexed any one, not familiar with their
intricacies, to thread them on a dark night.
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