He was so depressed and disheartened that he did not then
believe he would ever write again. He
was the junior of both his sisters, co-educated and much broken in to feminine
society. Ascertaining that it was Sheppard of whom this concourse
was in pursuit, the two horsemen leapt the hedge, and were presently close upon
him. “I expect it is
pretty well in shreds by now. So perfect was the illusion, that he could almost fancy he heard the solemn
voice of the ordinary warning him that his race was nearly run, and imploring
him to prepare for eternity. Ann
Veronica found her attention wandering a little as he told her that he was not
ashamed to feel almost slavish in the presence of really beautiful people, and
then they came to the Michaelmas daisies. Had Valade been to see him? Possibly even yesterday when he
was followed by some young lad—and the girl, of course. “His love-making,” she remarked, “struck me as unconvincing. This morning his entourage (as he jestingly called it) consisted of the girl, two
spinsters (Prudence and Angelina Jedson), prim and doubtful of the world, and
the young man who appeared to be considerably the worse for the alcohol he had
consumed.
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