”
“I still——”
Anna stopped short. "Well, Jack," he said, after a pause, "are you disposed to go back quietly with
me?"
"You'll ascertain that when you attempt to touch me," rejoined Sheppard,
resolutely. I
want to be your knight, your servant, your protector, your—I dare scarcely write
the word—your husband. ‘And me—’
‘You, mademoiselle, are more trouble than you’re worth, and I’ll thank you to
—’
‘Hilary, don’t,’ said Lucy, and Melusine’s rising temper cooled a little. Apologizing for their detention, he answered the questions put to him respecting
the boys, by positively denying that any such prisoners had been entrusted to his
charge, but offered to conduct him to every cell in the building to prove the truth
of his assertion. All
the furniture was moved, all the meals were disarranged, and everybody, Ann
Veronica included, appeared in new, bright costumes. My whole life shall be devoted to you,
beloved girl. She was slender, and sometimes she seemed tall, and walked and carried herself
lightly and joyfully as one who commonly and habitually feels well, and
sometimes she stooped a little and was preoccupied. She could not realize what she saw. Then
one old crone, short-sighted and shaky-handed, called Ann Veronica “dearie,”
and made some remark, obscure and slangy, of which the spirit rather than the
words penetrated to her understanding. “You are very kind,” she said hesitatingly, “but I don’t remember—I don’t think
that I know you, do I?”
“I am afraid that you do not,” he admitted, with a smile which he meant to be
encouraging. He was daring enough to have seized and carried him off before the
whole congregation, but he preferred waiting. She was clear there were no other minds like them in all the world.
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