‘And how is it that you have acquired this garb of a religieuse?’ he asked as
she fitted the veil over her head. Hogarth," he observed, significantly. . "Disparity of rank is ever productive of
unhappiness in the married state. "
"Thank'ee, Sir," grinned Sheppard. ‘Gerald Alderley, I don’t know what you deserve. Presently she was again in that dreadful tavern of the Thénardiers. "There, he's as safe as Jack Sheppard in the Condemned Hould," laughed the
man. Ann Veronica forgot him as soon as she was through the gate, and her face
resumed its expression of stern preoccupation. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray. There, after protestations of friendliness and helpfulness that were almost ardent,
he mounted a little clumsily and rode off at an amiable pace, looking his best,
making a leg with his riding gaiters, smiling and saluting, while Ann Veronica
turned northward and so came to Micklechesil. "
"You shall—you shall," answered Jack.
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