’
‘Do you indeed?’ rejoined the old lady, twinkling at him, and urging him
towards the door. ”
“Let us say that Café Maston, in the Boulevard des Italiennes, at half-past seven
then,” he decided. Ann Veronica, after a last
survey of the dinner appointments, followed him, rustling, came to his side by
the high brass fender, and touched two or three ornaments on the mantel above
the cheerful fireplace. He too looked at the girl, slackened his pace and looked at her
again through his eye-glasses, looked over his shoulder after he had passed, and
finally came to a dead stop. “Aunt!” she said, “I can’t—”
Then she caught a wild appeal in her aunt’s blue eye, halted, and the door
clicked upon them. While involved in this crowd, near Temple Bar,
—where the thoroughfare was most dangerous from the masses of ruin that
impeded it,—an individual, whose swarthy features recalled to the carpenter one
of his tormentors of the previous night, collared him, and, with bitter
imprecations accused him of stealing his child. "
"It shall be ready in two hours," answered Jack, seizing a piece of wood and a
plane; "it isn't more than four o'clock. "
"If you will not take me, I'll find some guide who will. ’ He reddened a little, and shuffled his feet. “You have changed somehow—and you certainly are less
friendly. So
here I am, king of all I survey, with a predilection for poker, a scorched liver, and
a piano-player. He won’t have menservants inside the house, and his collection of carriages
is only fit for a museum—where most of his friends ought to be, by-the-bye. Mr. Wild's busy. "Aliva, your child perished with its father.
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