Now, more than ever, it was time to start
running. She had something of the feeling a Hindoo must experience who has been into
surroundings or touched something that offends his caste. The expression pervading the countenance of the one was vulgarity;
of the other, that which is rarely found, except in persons of high birth. “I expected you this morning,” he said. He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. "To be sure," returned Wild; "he's not only alive, but likely for life, if we don't
clip the thread. . ToC
About an hour after this, Jack ventured to emerge from his place of concealment. To his relief, Mrs Sindlesham stepped into the breach, grasping
her cane and rising painfully from her chair. Darting quickly to the chest that contained the
priest’s vestments, she leapt onto it and reached her arm down to scrabble behind
it on the floor. To be near
someone, even someone who made a pretense of friendliness, to hear voices, her
own intermingling, would serve as a rehabilitating tonic. She reminded him sometimes of the one holy and ineffable Madonna, at others
of Berode, the great courtezan of her day, who had sent kings away from her
doors, and had just announced her intention of ending her life in a convent. “Which one?”
“The one whose life you have been making a burden, who has been all the time
shielding her sister. When the woollen-draper was nearly worn out, the Amazon
watched her opportunity, and hitting him on the arm, disabled it.
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