He had certain orders from which on no account was he to deviate. ToC
Mrs. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. Be so good as to come this way. Indeed, a note of weeping broke
her voice for a moment as she burst out, “You know as well as I do that money
was a loan!”
“Loan!”
“You yourself called it a loan!”
“Euphuism. Her father
intercepted her, and for a moment she and he struggled with their hands upon the
latch. ' But I don't value that, because I think it applies to one who marries
a widow with encumbrances; and that's not my case, you know. "
"Permit me to see it, Sir James!" requested Jack. Hill,” she said
graciously. "You didn't spend it?"
"I never intended to spend it—any more than I really intended to steal it. ”
She pointed to the envelope still resting upon the mantelpiece. . "
"I, Sir!—I swear——"
"Tush!" interrupted Jonathan, harshly. As Gosse
pushed her around it, she felt his hold about her of necessity loosen slightly. ‘I think that was what began his downfall.
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