It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. “Before this there was a sort of restraint—a make-believe. As
absurd as that you take this interest in my affairs. Are you now satisfied?"
"No," interposed Wood, furiously, "I shall never be satisfied till I see you hanged
on the highest gibbet at Tyburn. And in those days, too, he
used to help her mother with her gardening, and hover about her while she stood
on the ladder and hammered creepers to the scullery wall. Wood in the deepest mourning. “I was sick of the make-believe. ’
‘But two letters,’ put in the woman. In this way he crossed one or two public gardens and a
bowling-green,—the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell then abounded in such
places of amusement,—passed the noted Ducking Pond, where Black Mary had
been frequently immersed; and, striking off to the left across the fields, arrived in
a few minutes at his destination. "
"Not unless your skull's bullet-proof," cried a voice at his elbow; and, as the
words were uttered, a pistol was snapped at his head, which,—fortunately or
unfortunately, as the reader pleases,—only burnt the priming. It came to Ann Veronica that life was wonderful beyond measure. Was the man
debating whether or no to tell the truth? A grimace played about Valade’s mouth
and the general waited, maintaining his own rigid pose.
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