“You should quit. She chuckled. You'll live to hate chicken; and
the man in you will rise up and demand strong drink. "
Sir Rowland looked bewildered with surprise. There was a murmur or two
among the watchers on the bench, but no one ventured to intervene again. "
"That likeness is the chief cause of my misery," replied the widow, shuddering. "And now, mark me. Leaving the library by the same door she had first used to
enter it earlier that day, she crossed the two little antechambers and moved on
through the rooms. She was working very steadily
at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonderfully relieved to have
her mind engaged upon one methodically developing theme in the place of the
discursive uncertainties of the previous two months, and doing her utmost to
keep right in the back of her mind and out of sight the facts, firstly, that she had
achieved this haven of satisfactory activity by incurring a debt to Ramage of
forty pounds, and, secondly, that her present position was necessarily temporary
and her outlook quite uncertain. . ’
‘It is you who will get the head blown off,’ threatened the young lady fiercely. ‘No. He was just getting cross about your being late for dinner—you
know his way—when it came. “Not a penny—not one penny—and never
darken your doors again!”
Part 4
The next day her aunt came again and expostulated, and was just saying it was
“an unheard-of thing” for a girl to leave her home as Ann Veronica had done,
when her father arrived, and was shown in by the pleasant-faced landlady. His name was Bartolomeo di Alberti.
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