But in his presence a wall of
diffidence and timidity encompassed her. She was too delicate, too
fragile to survive out there. Her little white hand stole across the table. The hardest bout I ever had was with a woman—Sally Wells, who was
afterwards lagged for shoplifting. ”
“He dated her?”
“Yeah, for all of three months last year. ”
The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill
and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost
ostentatious discretion. Wood again made his appearance in a more
composed frame of mind, and, at his daughter's earnest solicitation, was induced
to partake of some refreshment. "He can't get
out. ”
The topic of his invalid wife bored him, and he turned at once to Ann
Veronica. The voice of the young seaman came floating down from the masthead,
and the story of the immortal lovers had begun. To prevent the recurrence of any such escape as that just described, it was
deemed expedient, in more recent times, to keep a watchman at the top of
Newgate. Melusine circled her adversary only far enough to give herself the aisle
between the pews behind.
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