Wood, in equal trepidation. A dark mass of wreckage, over which
hung a slight mist of vapour, lay half in the ditch, half across the hedge, close
under a tree from the trunk of which the bark had been torn and stripped. . And, to show you that I have no intention of flying, I will myself close
and lock the door. Suffer me to
precede you. “I don’t think I’ve ever eaten that much in my entire
life, Lucy, and that’s saying something. ”
“I am your friend,” he said slowly, “whatever you may have to tell me. This person—this Jonathan Wild, whom I
beheld for the first time, scarcely an hour ago, in Wych Street, is—I know not
why—my enemy. Who is the beautiful intruder? And why does she
disguise herself as a nun? Why is she involved in an enterprise both foolhardy
and dangerous? The girl’s accent suggests an émigré but Mademoiselle insists
she is English. I will wish you success or failure, whichever is the better for
you. Hitherto in the world’s history there had been precursors of this Progress at
great intervals, voices that had spoken and ceased, but now it was all coming on
together in a rush. Now if you are ready to go with me, I too
am ready. You have taken even my knife. If there was such a thing as love at
first sight, these two must epitomise it. Manning’s feelings, and
as Ann Veronica’s mind was still largely engaged with fundamentals and found
no pleasure in metrical forms, she had not as yet cut its pages.
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