\"It's getting late John. Upstairs, in the little dressing-room, the panel was opened by means of
tugging a small candlesconce in the wall. One transgression; he was sure of that. The two
hostlers, however, kept close at his heels; and Jack, whose strength began to flag,
feared he could not hold much longer. Jolly
hard life for a girl, getting a living. She met his eyes for a
moment, and could not interpret their expression. Fast. Martin came to the door, looking radiant and relieved. An uncomfortable silence
followed. She found presently she was out of the dock and confronted with the
alternative of being bound over in one surety for the sum of forty pounds—
whatever that might mean or a month’s imprisonment. ‘Do not imagine that I will leave poor Jacques. The next page
was a drawing that she had made in pen and ink of his
face, or what she had remembered of it. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued
her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that
might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was
something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the
mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little
dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. ‘I see that Leonardo was right. The very facts that Miss Miniver never stated an argument clearly, that she
was never embarrassed by a sense of self-contradiction, and had little more
respect for consistency of statement than a washerwoman has for wisps of vapor,
which made Ann Veronica critical and hostile at their first encounter in
Morningside Park, became at last with constant association the secret of Miss
Miniver’s growing influence.
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