Eh bien, why did he
not repeat it? What was she to say?
‘Prudence,’ she began hesitantly, pronouncing the name in the French way,
‘has said that she will help me to—to marry an Englishman. Still, it was rather terrible
to suspect that one had fallen from grace, but nevertheless the thing was
possible. Wood, who had recovered her good humour, quitted the room she bestowed
a hearty embrace on Thames, and she told him laughingly, that she would "defer
all she had to propose to him until to-morrow. Words of encouragement and sympathy were addressed to Jack,
who, as he looked around, beheld many a friendly glance fixed upon him. “You are developing far too retentive a memory for praises,” said Ann
Veronica. If only there had not been this single torturing thought—a mere pin-prick, but
still curiously persistent. Even her
memories of he who had frequented her life for the
longest period of years were worn and fading. Her eyes fell, and then sought his again with timid interest. Jack looked
towards the door. It is enough to make
a man throw away canvas and brushes into the bottomless precipices, enough to
make one weep with despair at his utter and absolute impotence.
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