Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. It amazed her that women in the United States
could own property as easily as they did nowadays. Ann Veronica was by this time quite shocked at her own thoughts, and yet
they would go on with their freaks. I'll have a
peep at him, if I die for it," she muttered, as she went out. A glance down the passage—to see that
Roding was not lurking?—and her face came back to Gerald, triumph in her
eyes. Professing to
stand between the robber and the robbed, he himself plundered both. For a few
days he was able to relegate his conscience to the background. “I thought I was just up against Morningside Park and father, but it’s the
whole order of things—the whole blessed order of things. “How are those books any different from the
witchcraft books?”
“I dunno. ” She fumbled with her keys and
opened the front door. Kneebone's. I have two days in which to earn nearly
thirty shillings—that is with no dinners, and get a situation.
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