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"Oh, it's a part of the game," said McClintock. He glanced at his watch. “It was such a
surprise to see you. They crossed the street, and entering the front door passed up the outside stone
steps of the flat. It seemed at first the most beautiful afternoon of all time to her, and perhaps
the thrill of her excitement did add a distinctive and culminating keenness to the
day. If I had never met anything of you at all but a scrap
of your skin binding a book, Ann Veronica, I know I would have kept that
somewhere near to me. At times he seemed to be claiming
pity from her; at times he was threatening her with her check and exposure; at
times he was boasting of his inflexible will, and how, in the end, he always got
what he wanted. ‘You heard Gosse—I mean, the man you know as Valade?’
‘Clear as day, miss,’ he uttered. Jack was in excellent spirits; and by his wit, drollery and
agreeable demeanour, speedily became a great favourite with the turnkey, who
allowed him every indulgence consistent with his situation. “He is addressing a meeting of his constituents somewhere,” Annabel answered.
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