Charvill’s fury was burning out. I’ve
been on the watch for you. But
a girl is soiled not only by evil but by the proximity of evil, and a reputation for
rashness may do her as serious an injury as really reprehensible conduct. Besides, it was not the lodgekeeper’s business to know
that “other matters” included a reluctance on Gerald’s part to allow his little
company to conduct the search without him, and he’d had an engagement this
morning. There was a man, a boy, and a
woman. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. He looked about for his hat, and put it on. "
"Have you told him so?" she inquired, reproachfully. "
"If he could stand on two feet, I'd break every bone in his worthless body!"
McClintock said soothingly: "But that wouldn't nullify the marriage, old boy. Do you remember your first day with me?.
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