“Did he tell you, Annabel?”
“Yes. For this he was prepared;
but he was not prepared for the almost insurmountable obstacles which it
presented. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she
took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited instead of bringing
them home openly, and she went to the theatre whenever she could produce an
acceptable friend to accompany her. . . "
Thames turned away at the question, which he felt might be construed into a
reproach. The windows
were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance
of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his
huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly
demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate. I
——”
He stopped short. Then they rode off at speed.
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