Hastening in the direction of the sound, he discovered
Thames Darrell, stretched upon the ground. You
could walk the city streets and with every blink you could
take in a new sight of beauty so great that your heart
would weep for it. The one through which she had come and Gosse had entered behind her. Her normally shiny hair was
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stringy and flat. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. ’
‘Dear me. If he died, here in this hotel, who would
care? Or if she died, who would care?
A queer desire blossomed in her heart: to go to him, urge him to see the folly of
trying to forget. Ruth out of the picture, he
wouldn't have concerned himself so eagerly in regard to Spurlock's departure. "
The lad made no answer, but left the room. Wood glanced at the hardy offender, and not liking the expression of his
countenance, thought it advisable to postpone the execution of his threats to a
more favourable opportunity. ”
Part 3
When Ann Veronica found herself in her father’s study that evening it seemed
to her for a moment as though all the events of the past six months had been a
dream.
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