The young
man looked at her. What else could one say? I left him to suppose—a
registry perhaps. They then clambered over a hedge, and scaling another wall, got into the garden
at the back of the house. He had spoken impressively, and most likely Anna, had she reappeared, would
have met with a fair reception. ”
Anna laughed, gave in and with deft fingers created order out of chaos. "
"Yes. The unknown, previously so attractive, now presented another
face—blank. I
didn't expect you home before that hour, Sir. Ann Veronica snatched at the opportunity, and spent most of the intervening time
in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum, reading and thinking over a little
book upon the feminist movement the tired woman had made her buy. "Woman, your wits are fled!"
And so it seemed; for all the answer she could make was to murmur distractedly,
"I can't find the key. This gate, called Newgate, "as being latelier builded
than the rest," continued, for upwards of three hundred years, to be used as a
place of imprisonment for felons and trespassers; at the end of which time,
having grown old, ruinous, and "horribly loathsome," it was rebuilt and enlarged
by the executors of the renowned Sir Richard Whittington, the Lord Mayor of
London: whence it afterwards obtained amongst a certain class of students,
whose examinations were conducted with some strictness at the Old Bailey, and
their highest degrees taken at Hyde-park-corner, the appellation of Whittington's
College, or, more briefly, the Whit.
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