The
child was still safe. He was confined in the Middle Stone Ward, a spacious apartment, with good
light and air, situated over the gateway on the western side, and allotted to him,
not for his own convenience, but for that of the keepers, who, if he had been
placed in a gloomier or more incommodious dungeon, would have necessarily
had to share it with him. A sarcastic smile seemed to play upon the chief-taker's
lips; and abashed at his own irresolution, the lad went on. Scarcely had it come to a halt, when a stalwart man shouldered his way, in spite
of their opposition, through the lines of soldiery to the cart, and offered his large
horny hand to the prisoner. "Untie his arms, and take off that handkerchief. She colored faintly. He bowed awkwardly to
Mrs. Sydney was watching her eagerly. Opening her large black eyes, she fixed them upon
him for a moment with a mixture of terror and loathing, and then averted her
gaze. To find the true father at
the expense of the beautiful fairy tale Ruth had woven around the woman in the
locket was an intolerable thought. She wallowed for a time in the thought of Capes, unable to escape from
his image and the idea of his presence in her life. "
The girl fished into the bottle for an olive. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and
inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he
got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank
you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude. "Oh! no—no—no," cried Winifred, "I cannot believe it. ”
CONTENTS
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came
down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have
things out with her father that very evening.
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