”
“How?”
“Well—a little clumsily. When I heard about Larry I was going
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to call you, I was, but, well, there is no excuse, is there? I
acted like I was afraid of you, afraid that I liked you, so I
ignored you like a coward. "Always plenty to spare. She would not look at him, would not think of him; when
her mind wavered, then she muttered to herself in the darkness so as to keep hold
of her generalizations. Ye gods! what a
wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one
regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against
you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse
confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the
Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the
painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. ”
“How would you know I’m not ready? I’m older than
you, remember? Sometimes you act so worldly, as if
you’d seen it all. You see, I’m selfish. ”
Ann Veronica was stung to helpless anger. ” She said as the car stopped. The hansom drove off. Then he was to
arrest you and bring you home to me. It brought no
coconut. ”
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
THE SAPPHIRE RING
Part 1
For a time that ring set with sapphires seemed to be, after all, the satisfactory
solution of Ann Veronica’s difficulties. "
"I see through your design, Jack," returned the carpenter, gravely; "but I don't
like under-hand work. Even WITH the Censorship of
Plays there’s hardly a decent thing to which a man can take his wife and
daughters, a creeping taint of suggestion everywhere.
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