“One has to live and learn,” she remarked, with a passable imitation of her
father’s manner. It consisted of a full-dress coat of
brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise
richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was
termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample
as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. And he had gone away without knowing the
truth!
"My proa boys are ready; the wind is brisk; and in an hour we shall be beyond
all pursuit. Then he understood. ‘I don’t want no gold! Not for serving my mistress. “Hospital? What for? What’s the matter with me?”
Courtlaw’s voice sank to a whisper. ”
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. Her eye wandered quickly over that riotous and
disorderly assemblage, until it settled upon one group more riotous and
disorderly than the rest, of which her son formed the principal figure. She leaves me
almost without comparisons. ”
“Except,” said Constance, surveying her work with her head on one side, “to
keep the matches from the litter. They say it hasn't been opened for eight years—but I won't be eight years in
getting out of it. “Yeah.
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