Lucia liked
the doctor though, and he seemed to be very fond of her
too. 1. Part 5
Presently it occurred to Ann Veronica to ask about the journey he had planned. There was no answer. Sheppard, as I
told you, is in Bedlam, an incurable maniac; while her son is in the New Prison,
whence he will only be removed to Newgate and Tyburn. Ann Veronica loved beautiful things, and the beauty of undraped loveliness
not least among them; but these were pictures that did but insist coarsely upon
the roundness of women’s bodies. Did he intend to kill her now, this instant? Or had she a
moment or two to try to save herself? Recalling Leonardo’s dictum, she did not
struggle, for that would only tighten the trap about her, and perhaps even spring
it. Pig and brute! Yet calling him hard names would not help her. A moistened velvet touch found her tongue. I am fairly well hardened in iniquity—your iniquity, Annabel—but I
decline to have a husband thrust upon me. I want to know who sent you those. She handled it half fearfully, and set it carefully down
again. John knew everybody, it seemed.
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