The servants had left the room. ’
Chapter Three
Captain Hilary Roding listened with only half an ear to the long-winded report
being given by Sergeant Trodger, his idle gaze wandering over the congested
traffic of Piccadilly and the many pedestrians weaving a hazardous path through
it. Wood, in deploring his wild career, adverted to the melancholy condition to
which it had reduced his mother. “I admired your sister in Paris,” he answered, “but I do not believe that I regard
her now as altogether the same person. It was only by the adoption of such a course (especially since
the late act of suppression, to which we have alluded,) that the inviolability of
the asylum could be preserved. ”
“She invited me to dinner anyway. Beyond the hatch, an angle,
formed by a projection in the wall of some three or four feet, served to hide a
door conducting to the interior of the prison. "
She laughed; and it was pleasant laughter in his ears. Even you have not been able to hold her back. A dovecoloured kincob gown, embroidered with large trees, and made very low in front,
displayed to the greatest possible advantage, the rounded proportions of her
figure; while a high-heeled, red-leather shoe did not detract from the symmetry
of a very neat ankle, and a very small foot. I kept watch over you, for fear of a
surprise on the part of Jonathan. . Ann Veronica had got quite interested in Mr.
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