’
‘Yes, I’m sorry about that,’ Gerald uttered in a rueful tone. If she returns to the house from which we took her, her
companions will laugh at her and smother her with ridicule. "
"A friend is not so soon gained as lost," replied Wood; "but how has the
prediction been fulfilled, Joan, eh?"
"I thought you would have guessed, Sir," replied the widow, timidly. ’ Gerald frowned. Their conversation hung. She was the actress his whim had chosen to play a passive
part. “I hope you will not compel me to
say again that I do not know the man’s name, nor, to the best of my belief, have I
ever seen him before in my life. Jack, who had been lingering near the group, now walked on. The occasion of all this confusion and dismay, meanwhile, remained perfectly
motionless; his figure erect, and with somewhat of dignity in his demeanour. And this damning evidence―’ with a
brusque gesture at the portrait ‘―must also be destroyed. It was bad luck to go to
Canongate. . Ann Veronica’s desire to laugh unrestrainedly was checked by the tremendous
earnestness of his expression.
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