The very facts that Miss Miniver never stated an argument clearly, that she
was never embarrassed by a sense of self-contradiction, and had little more
respect for consistency of statement than a washerwoman has for wisps of vapor,
which made Ann Veronica critical and hostile at their first encounter in
Morningside Park, became at last with constant association the secret of Miss
Miniver’s growing influence. "But, perhaps, he has not got beyond the room above. She never touched the manuscript with pencil, but
jotted down her notes on slips of paper and left them where he might easily find
them. And stony broke. "To-night, your ladyship?" ventured an elderly domestic. “No. A wedding procession turned the corner. . ”
“I like the mystical way,” she said. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered. “I want to inquire,” said Ann Veronica.
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