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CHAPTER XXVII
His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her
suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent
thought. It is simply our point of
view which is altogether different. Finally she decided upon a
step that had always seemed reasonable to her, but that hitherto she had, from
motives too faint for her to formulate, refrained from taking. ” The
doors at the other end of the hall opened. On the right of the postern against the wall was affixed
a small grating, sustaining the debtor's box; and any pleasure which the passerby might derive from contemplating the splendid structure above described was
damped at beholding the pale faces and squalid figures of the captives across the
bars of its strongly-grated windows. "
With no little effort—for the right words had a way of tumbling back out of
reach—he marshalled his phrases, and as he uttered them, closed his eyes to
lessen the possibility of a break. And it’s like the petals falling from a flower. Ennison spoke at last. Hist!’ he added, as he turned his head
and noticed Alderley’s glance. She said”—Ann Veronica shivered again—“‘I hope
it won’t make you uncomfortable, my dear’—like that—‘and whatever you do,
do be careful of your hair!’ I think—I judge from her manner—that she thought
it was just a little indelicate of us—considering everything; but she tried to be
practical and sympathetic and live down to our standards. “You are very good,” she said. In Wych Street Owen Wood did dwell;
A carpenter he was by trade,
And money, I believe, he made. A young man, who had been spending the last hour walking
up and down on the opposite side of the way, came quickly over to her. She followed Oxford Street into Holborn, and then she inquired for Chancery
Lane.
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