Disillusion stands in
one doorway of our house and Mockery in the other. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. I am altogether a person of a
disposition extremely interfering, as you have so often told me. "
And the great thief-taker indulged himself in a chuckle at the effect produced by
this announcement. ‘Oh, you may come to me on any mission you like,’ uttered Mrs Sindlesham
roguishly. "As long as I live, I'll never forget that dress of hers," Prudence declared. "
"No. They were going up the slope into Waterloo Station. He just wants to get laid. He swore when I tried to get it out with the ladle, and told
me what it said. Young and old were dressed in their gayest
apparel; and it was evident from the smiles that lighted up every countenance,
from the roguish looks of the younger swains, and the demure expression of
several pretty rustic maidens, that a ceremony, which never fails to interest all
classes,—a wedding,—was about to take place.
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