"By Heaven!" cried he in a tone of surprise, "you have an infant there?"
"To be sure I have," replied Wood, angrily; for, finding that the intentions of the
stranger were pacific, so far as he was concerned, he thought he might safely
venture on a slight display of spirit. ”
It was nearly half an hour before they dared ask him the question. People do call their unlawful children
strange names. "And so we're to be
summoned from our beds and snug firesides, because a kid happens to squall,
eh? By the soul of my grandmother, but this is too good!"
"Do you intend to claim the privileges of the Mint?" said Jonathan, calmly
pursuing his interrogations amid the uproar. But, after all, what does that matter? He is very much taken with me. ‘Wait a
minute, though. And I want you for myself—for
my wife. His lips parted
in a rare smile. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. She rose at once with a little
exclamation, half of surprise, half of pleasure. “There was a man called Montague Hill,” she said hoarsely, “but he is dead. ‘If you had met her, you’d understand. . He—In fact, he—he locked me in my room.
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