"You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice,
your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me
strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to
perpetrate the outrage I've just described. I
hope in a few days, Miss Pellissier, that these posters will be livening up our
London hoardings. ‘That rascally knave sent you to become a French nun?’
Looking positively terrified, the girl nodded dumbly. “I don’t see at all how you can be managing,” said Miss Stanley, and Ann
Veronica hastened to reply, “I do on very little. Your own safety—the child's safety—depends
upon your candour. But Sheppard answered for him. He had
been dreaming of Ruth—an old recurrency of that dream he had had in Canton,
of Ruth leading him to the top of the mountain. So long as a man behaves himself, I can't refuse him liquor. I need you every day. "
"It does so," said Wild. She
came in now with an air of reserved solicitude.
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