Books were always sliding
and slipping, clumsy objects to hold. But he promised to give me a couple of guineas if I'd ascertain
whether it fitted your locks. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. This salute of his—actually the first she could remember—while it did not
disturb her, began to lead her thoughts into new channels of speculation. Capes had altered scarcely at all during the interval, except for a new
quality of smartness in the cut of his clothes, but Ann Veronica was nearly half
an inch taller; her face was at once stronger and softer, her neck firmer and
rounder, and her carriage definitely more womanly than it had been in the days
of her rebellion. "Will he consent, to be searched?" inquired Jonathan. Life is morality—life is adventure. Knew something was up.
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