Aware of the cunning and desperate
characters of the persons with whom she would have to deal,—aware, also, that
she was in a quarter where no laws could be appealed to, nor assistance obtained,
she felt the absolute necessity of caution. “I wonder why
people in love are so defiant, so careless of other considerations?”
“The very hares grow brave. ”
He drew a little nearer to her. "
"You need never be afraid of that," returned Winifred, affectionately; "my father
will take care you never leave him more. Her heart was beating
with quite unaccustomed vigour, her hands were hot, she was conscious of a
warmth in her blood which the summer sunshine was scarcely responsible for. Her aunt returned before the
packing was done, and Ann Veronica lunched with an uneasy sense of bag and
hold-all packed up-stairs and inadequately hidden from chance intruders by the
valance of the bed. "
"Well, then," returned the ruffian, "to put you out o' suspense, as the topsman
remarked to poor Tom Sheppard, afore he turned him off, I'm come to make you
an honourable proposal o' marriage. They had asked her to come to the first of the two great
annual Fadden Dances, the October one, and Ann Veronica had accepted with
enthusiasm. The occasion is worth a dash of the grape, lad. They had both been
unsuccessful.
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