. ‘And I am
delighted to see that you are ready to admit that the Charvills—or rather the
Valades—are indeed your affair. Ann Veronica’s universe, which had never been altogether so respectful to her
as she could have wished, gave a shout and whirled head over heels. If I had never met anything of you at all but a scrap
of your skin binding a book, Ann Veronica, I know I would have kept that
somewhere near to me. She got a
bun and some cocoa in the little refreshment-room, and then wandered through
the galleries up-stairs, crowded with Polynesian idols and Polynesian dancinggarments, and all the simple immodest accessories to life in Polynesia, to a seat
among the mummies. "Gracious Heavens! this is more wonderful than all the rest," cried the carpenter,
rubbing his eyes. The coachman
answered by a surly grunt, and, plying his whip with redoubled zeal, shaped his
course down Dyot Street; traversed that part of Holborn, which is now called
Broad Street, and where two ancient alms-houses were, then, standing in the
middle of that great thoroughfare, exactly opposite the opening of Compston
Street; and, diving under a wide gateway on the left, soon reached a more open
space, surrounded by mean habitations, coach-houses and stables, called
Kendrick Yard, at the further end of which Saint Giles's round-house was
situated. That had taken her by surprise, and her tired wits had failed
her. “You go home and think of all this,” he said, “and talk about it to-morrow. "
"Well, Sir, his name?"
"Jonathan Wild. “I’m a ghoul! So you
can become a ghoul? You should settle down, John, get
married, have children. She was a trained being—trained by an implacable mother to one
end.
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