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"You read it, Ruth. The terrific mental tension of the past few months
—that had held his bodily nourishment in a kind of strangulation—became as a
dream; and now his vitals responded rapidly to food and air. But I can tell you who'll have the pleasure of
hanging your father's son; and that's a person not a hundred miles distant from
you at this moment—ha! ha!"
As he said this, the door was opened, and Charcam entered, accompanied by a
dwarfish, shabby-looking man, in a brown serge frock, with coarse Jewish
features, and a long red beard. “If you really are going
to wait, make yourself as comfortable as you can. ' Jack Sheppard's library consisted
of a few ragged and well-thumbed volumes abstracted from the tremendous
chronicles bequeathed to the world by those Froissarts and Holinsheds of crime
—the Ordinaries of Newgate. ‘Jacques? Oh, that is news of the very finest. Refused
admittance, they broke open the door. Outside the door stood one
of the soldiers. To be confronted with the girl’s damned Frenchman of a husband was another
matter altogether. Ashen blonde, a shade that would never excite the cynical commentary
which men applied to certain types of blondes. It was a
cheerful, irresponsible, shamelessly hard-up family in the key of faded green and
flattened purple, and the girls went on from the High School to the Fadden Art
School and a bright, eventful life of art student dances, Socialist meetings,
theatre galleries, talking about work, and even, at intervals, work; and ever and
again they drew Ann Veronica from her sound persistent industry into the circle
of these experiences. “Very well,” she would say, “then I must go. Stanley pronounced, and seemed to
hesitate whether he had not gone too far. ”
He gave the note to the parlormaid the next morning in an inadvertent, casual
manner just as he was leaving the house to catch his London train. She addressed Ann Veronica with
an air of conveying great open secrets to her.
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