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Why had he glanced up—quite in that way?. ’
‘No, for that would have had to be in Melusine’s possession to start with. The one
profession, the one decent profession, I mean, for a woman—except the stage—
is teaching, and there we trample on one another. Ask your own conscience. The Ragged Edge. Why hadn't he admitted that he recognized the
photograph? What instinct had impelled him swiftly to assume his Oriental
mask?
"Why?" asked O'Higgins. ”
Courtlaw suddenly interposed. In all
these weeks she had not once knelt to pray. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. Captain Roding strode into the parlour. Another charge was then
brought against them by the Captain, who accused them of kidnapping him when
a boy, and placing him in the hands of a Dutch skipper, named Van Galgebrok,
with instructions to throw him overboard, which was done, though he afterwards
escaped. He loves the
Mendelians because he hates all the big names of the eighties and nineties. Is all that folly done with—for ever?”
Annabel shivered ever so slightly. ”
CONTENTS
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came
down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have
things out with her father that very evening.
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