I'll put a brace of
dogs on your track, who'll soon hunt you down. But in a little while you will
awake; and if there is a spark of manhood in you, you will be horrified at this
day's work. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside
Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly
have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond
measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before
them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a
lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving
out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. I hope
you won’t mind if I say first that I think it does me an extraordinary honor that
you should think of any one like myself so highly and seriously, and, secondly,
that I wish it had not been written. ’
‘Precisely,’ Gerald repeated. She was posing
before the mirror, critically, miserably, defensively, and perhaps bewilderedly. See what a horrible rascal
you've let loose upon the world!"
"I'm sure, mother," rejoined Winifred, "if any one was likely to feel resentment, I
was; for no one could be more frightened. ’
Captain Roding grinned. She never
grew angry for anything her husband did: such anger as came to her was directed
against the lazy, incompetent servant who was always snooping about in the
inner temple—Spurlock's study. I
cannot explain beyond that.
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