Part 8
And as she sat on her bed that night, musing and half-undressed, she began to
run one hand down her arm and scrutinize the soft flow of muscle under her
skin. What lends a tragic mockery to all these tender traps of hers was that she
was within lawful bounds. None of the things they said and did were altogether new to Ann Veronica, but
now she got them massed and alive, instead of by glimpses or in books—alive
and articulate and insistent. The Master of the Mint
IV. . Jonathan kept his keen eye fixed upon him, as he addressed himself for a
moment to the Hollander. Sheppard's dress—extremely
neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending
material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and
her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly,
have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. Moreoever, it had
cost her a whipping and several days’ imprisonment in her cell on bread and
water.
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