Warned of the approach of the prisoners by the increased clamour, Sharples, who
was busied in distributing the Marquis's donation, affected to throw the
remainder of the money among the crowd, though, in reality, he kept back a
couple of guineas, which he slipped into his sleeve, and running hastily up the
steps, unlocked the door. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. During all this time, he had never quitted the iron bar, and he now grasped it
with the firm determination of selling his life dearly, if he met with any
opposition.
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