The Well Hole
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XIII. 9. They were things I had meant very much to talk to you about, so that I
went home vexed and disappointed, and only relieved myself a little by writing a
few verses. This year—I’ve got it
badly. Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. "Back!" cried Jack fiercely: "lay a finger on her, and I will fell you to the ground. He wanted
to talk with the patient, test him variously; and he wanted to be alone with him
while he put these tests. Or, if you were about to embark upon a
nautical career, here was all the information required. "I alone am to blame. "
"What proof have you that I am?"—was the return bolt. The houses they flitted to and from were glutted with
hangers-on, servant/mistresses, and errant prostitutes. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. A rock gave way to deep
water. “Miss Ellicot!” Brendon echoed. In each pause she could
sense his growing trepidation.
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