"Halloa!" exclaimed Austin, who had caught a glimpse of her departing figure,
"one of the women is gone!"
"No—no," hastily interposed Mrs. "Till then, I shall remain content," returned Wild. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. She stole a few glances at John as she stood and
played the pieces. "This," replied Jonathan, taking a paper from a portfolio, and handing it to the
knight, "this written evidence, signed by Martha Cooper, the gipsy, by whom the
girl was stolen, and who was afterwards executed for a similar crime. Fresh ground, no chicory, and all
the rest of it. The dream flowers and is harvested, and we are left by the wayside,
having served our singular purpose in the scheme of progress: as the orange is
tossed aside when sucked of its ruddy juice. But
this is a great lark, Ann Veronica! This turns life into a glorious adventure!”
“Ah!” she cried in triumph. She drank
it obediently.
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