The train, meantime, had passed Marylebone Lane, when it again paused for a
moment, at Jack's request, near the door of a public-house called the City of
Oxford. ”
“You didn’t. But she felt his lax figure become rigid. The momentary alarm over, he threw a piece of-wash leather over a
bureau, so as to deaden the sound, and instantly broke it open with a small crowbar. She was working very steadily
at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonderfully relieved to have
her mind engaged upon one methodically developing theme in the place of the
discursive uncertainties of the previous two months, and doing her utmost to
keep right in the back of her mind and out of sight the facts, firstly, that she had
achieved this haven of satisfactory activity by incurring a debt to Ramage of
forty pounds, and, secondly, that her present position was necessarily temporary
and her outlook quite uncertain. She trembled; but she did not know why. She felt her heartbeat accelerate until it
was pounding her chest. Here was one of those Americans
who would make him breathless before sundown. ”
She found her muscles a-tremble. But they did what they could for her. They went down the great staircase of the building, and, while she sought in
her mind for a beginning, he broke into appreciation of her simple dress and selfcongratulations upon their engagement.
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