”
“I wasn’t jesting,” said Capes, abruptly. Though Gerald must suppose it was
inevitable she should eventually come here. The latter formed by far
the most knavish-looking and unprepossessing portion of the assemblage. ‘I have the means to compel
you. "And yet—but it is only part of the chain of ill-luck that
seems wound around me. Wild here presently, and I wouldn't for the
world—Zounds!" he exclaimed, as the figure of the thief-taker appeared at the
wicket, "here he is. Howard Spurlock. "You mean, it doesn't
matter?"
"Poor Hoddy! When you were ill in Canton, out of your head, you babbled
words. I can’t imagine what
possessed you, Veronica. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. I
might have known it. Who knows?—on the analogy of “Squiggles” she might come to call
him “Mangles!”
“I don’t think I can ever marry any one,” she said, and fell suddenly into
another set of considerations that perplexed her for a time.
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