We did not
know where to send … in case you died. Why don’t you
wait and see if you do truly love me, then I can believe
you? Then I know I am worth waiting for. ToC
Nearly nine years after the events last recorded, and about the middle of May,
1724, a young man of remarkably prepossessing appearance took his way, one
afternoon, along Wych Street; and, from the curiosity with which he regarded the
houses on the left of the road, seemed to be in search of some particular
habitation. “We are not the sort that goes under,” said Ann Veronica, holding her hands so
that the red reflections vanished from her eyes. Two persons
possessing a more comfortable stock of assurance could not be readily found. The stranger concluded he could not be far from his
destination, and a turn in the road showed him the house. "
Figg turned aside to hide the tears that started to his eyes,—for the stout prizefighter, with a man's courage, had a woman's heart,—and the procession again
set forward. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. Every article in the trunk was fully
known to her, through a recounting of the list by the doctor. She guessed Jack was
having trouble finding the right piece of carving.
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