The dress of this person was excessively
showy, and consisted of a scarlet riding-habit, lined and faced with blue, and
bedizened with broad gold lace, a green silk-knit waistcoat, embroidered with
silver, and decorated with a deep fringe, together with a hat tricked out in the
same gaudy style. ”
“Ah!” Sir John exclaimed. ”
“I don’t care. Not only that, but he carried himself erect—
the slight slouch which had bent his shoulders had altogether disappeared. "But if you turn to
the right when you reach the ground, and keep close to the Mint wall, you'll
speedily arrive at White Cross Street; White Cross Street, if you turn again to the
right, will bring you into Queen Street; Queen Street, bearing to the left, will
conduct you to Deadman's Place; and Deadman's Place to the water-side, not
fifty yards from Saint Saviour's stairs, where you're sure to get a boat. "
"What for? What do you want of them?"
"Why, they are … yours. The Widgett mental
furniture was perhaps worn and shabby, but there it was before you, undisguised,
fading visibly in an almost pitiless sunlight. ”
“Well?”
“Sir John came to me—that you know—and you can guess what I told him. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. I had gone
further than I meant to—with some Englishmen.
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