And now her father said she must not go. "You may," replied Jack: "I'll fight for you to the last gasp. ‘Ask him. And the door was suddenly
thrown open, and the two janizaries felled to the ground by the strong arm of the
stalwart robber. It
would have been a crisis anyhow, but it was complicated in Ann Veronica’s mind
by the fact that a letter lay on the breakfast-table from Mr. ”
CONTENTS
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came
down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have
things out with her father that very evening. But you must
get him into the chair as fast as you can, and hurry off to Newgate. She quickly strangled him with the piano wire as he
looked at her, his lips open as if to scream, but his larynx
had been intentionally sliced. She fell with a
plop onto her rear end in the mud and sat dumbly like a
statue, water eddying around her. Moving back to the corner again, she ran a hand back over the leather-bound
books—which, she realised, were not books at all. She then dried her
eyes, and laying her child gently upon the floor, knelt down beside him. The carriage, which it has been mentioned drove up to the Six Bells, contained
four persons,—Jonathan Wild, his two janizaries, and his porter, Obadiah
Lemon. She would not sleep for fear of losing a
moment of that sense of his proximity. As
he passed the Six Bells, he noticed the steeds of the two horsemen at the door;
and glancing into the house, perceived the younger of the two in the passage. “Upon my word,” he exclaimed, “this is most extraordinary.
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