She was aware of the body of the court, of clerks seated at a black
table littered with papers, of policemen standing about stiffly with expressions of
conscious integrity, and a murmuring background of the heads and shoulders of
spectators close behind her. . People spoke of him everywhere as a young man of great promise, a politician
by instinct, a keen and careful judge of character. Wood having disposed of the brandy, and pronounced himself much better,
hurried close to the fire-side, and informed his friend in a few words of the
inhospitable treatment he had experienced from the gentlemen of the Mint;
whereupon Mr. ‘You are not
sympathique in the very least. It'll be
in your way. “That’s all. The slack
cloth of her habit caught on a curlicue in the carved back of the pew in front,
pulling her suddenly about. "
"He's let out for a few hours," laughed Kneebone; "but he's going back again
after supper. He
felt that he might soon be separated—perhaps, for ever—from the fond little
creature he held in his arms, whom he had always regarded with the warmest
fraternal affection, and the thought of how much she would suffer from the
separation so sensibly affected him, that he could not help joining in her grief. And at last Ann Veronica and Miss Miniver came down the dark staircase and
out into the foggy spaces of the London squares, and crossed Russell Square,
Woburn Square, Gordon Square, making an oblique route to Ann Veronica’s
lodging. He HAD followed her! What had he followed her for? He must have
followed her all the way from beyond Grosvenor Square. He rested his brow on his hand and conveyed magnificent tragedy by his pose. No, you don’t!”
Ennison had moved stealthily a little nearer to him, and looked suddenly into the
dark muzzle of the revolver.
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