Operations then commenced. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. A fierce
struggle ensued. ”
“By God!” said Manning, making the most of the word, “I suppose it’s fate. ‘You imbecile. Whenever Ah Cum (whose normal stride was sufficient
to keep him at the side of her chair) pointed out something of interest, she had to
strain the cords in her neck to focus her glance upon the object. It came to Spurlock suddenly that if something did
not react in his favour inside of five minutes, he was done. Maggot. "
Thus urged, Jack reluctantly departed. Stanley wanted to object strongly, but as he could not immediately think
how to put it, he contented himself with a grunt, and the motion was carried. You see, I have had to look after myself so long that I have
developed a terrible bump of independence.
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