The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking
advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his
money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the
name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. “Life—things—I don’t think her prospects now—Hopeful outlook. Part 7
Then one day a little thing happened that clothed itself in significance. ‘Your wife?’
‘My wife,’ he repeated, rising also, his smile mocking her. And, thrusting a
piece of iron into his mouth, he forced him out of the room. Fretting and fidgeting, he had, after
an hour or so, turned to McClintock. Always as black and bitter as gall. Ann Veronica wondered what her father would do if
she were to tell him the full story of her relations with Ramage. "Judging from what you tell me, I've no doubt he's the illegitimate offspring
of some handsome, but lowborn profligate; in which case, he'll neither have
name, nor wealth for his inheritance. We'll be upon the ban-dogs before they can shake their trotters!"
And the alarm was sounded more loudly than ever. Any one less courageous than himself would have
abandoned the attempt from a conviction of its utter hopelessness; but, though it
might for a moment damp his ardour, it could not deter him. “I have the right to be here.
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