Sheppard now directed her steps. “With regard to the conditions I mentioned,” Sir John continued, gaining a little
confidence from Anna’s silence, “I think you will admit that they are not wholly
unreasonable. I do not say guest because that suggests friendship;
and I am no friend of this Wastrel. . He drew an
awed breath. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. So good an opportunity may never occur again. In addition to the various business men, solicitors, civil servants, and widow
ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, there was a certain family of
alien sympathies and artistic quality, the Widgetts, with which Ann Veronica had
become very friendly. "Set it down, I tell you," thundered Blueskin, "or I shall do it a mischief. My proposition is for you to keep an eye on him,
and the moment he puts on his clothes to send me a telegram, care of the HongKong Hotel. I am sorry that I do not know any one in London.
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