Ann Veronica was excited and puzzled, with a sense of a strange and
disconcerting new light breaking over her relations with Ramage. There was no such a thing as
perfection in a mixed world. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. “Listen, Annabel,” he said hoarsely. “We were good friends in
Paris, weren’t we? You made me all sorts of promises, we planned no end of
nice things, and then—without a word to any one you disappeared. Ruth was strong in body and soul. The sight of the thief-taker increased the fury of the
mob to a fearful degree. It was like pouring a strong acid over
dulled metal. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U. She attempted by a sheer act of will to end the
scene, to will herself out of it anywhere.
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