He shut his eyes and groped for the wall to steady himself,
wondering if this bit of mummery would get over. Oh dear!—how sorry I am I ever left Wych Street. You’d think he wanted to meet the wretch again. He's
a model of conjugal attachment and fidelity, a pattern to his family, and an
example to his neighbours. It may be a long string, long enough
if you like to tangle up all sorts of people; but there it is! If the paymaster pulls,
home she must go. Just as he was preparing to follow, the wherry containing
Rowland and his men, which had drifted in their wake, was dashed against his
boat. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. It was the
expression of Miss Klegg’s face that put the idea into Ann Veronica’s head of
showing Manning at the College one day, an idea which she didn’t for some
reason or other carry out for a fortnight.
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