Which, let me assure you, villain, will not be so far away. Earles,” she exclaimed. Her defence ceased rapidly to be in any
sense ladylike, and became vigorous and effective; a strand of black hair that had
escaped its hairpins came athwart Ramage’s eyes, and then the knuckles of a
small but very hardly clinched fist had thrust itself with extreme effectiveness
and painfulness under his jawbone and ear. Conceiving the opportunity too favourable to be lost, Jack sprang suddenly over
the hedge, and before the man, who was floundering on the ground with one foot
in the stirrup, could extricate himself from his embarrassing position, secured his
pistols, which he drew from the holsters, and held them to his head. “I wonder,” she
said, “why one writes him sentences like that? It’ll have to go,” she decided,
“I’ve written too many already. You
can’t do that sort of thing unless you do it over religion, and there’s no religion
in me—of that sort—worth a rap. I deemed it more
prudent to send him to the Dark House than to bring him here, in case of any
search after him by his adoptive father—the carpenter Wood. Manning,
all this sort of thing is very well as sentiment, but does it correspond with the
realities? Are women truly such angelic things and men so chivalrous? You men
have, I know, meant to make us Queens and Goddesses, but in practice—well,
look, for example, at the stream of girls one meets going to work of a morning,
round-shouldered, cheap, and underfed! They aren’t queens, and no one is
treating them as queens. And all to find that picture of Mary Remenham. Well, this was the side of the
world where things like that happened. He could only wonder that this amazing thing had remained so long a secret to
him. In this room was my
ruin begun: in this room it should be ended. I’ll have to make a visit out of town.
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