” Ann Veronica sat at the foot of
the sufferer’s bed, while Teddy Widgett, being something of an athlete, occupied
the only bed-room chair—a decadent piece, essentially a tripod and largely a
formality—and smoked cigarettes, and tried to conceal the fact that he was
looking all the time at Ann Veronica’s eyebrows. ’
‘So I see. The man is a stranger to me. "You are a paragon of prudence and discretion," rejoined the woollen-draper,
drawing his chair closer to hers. "To—to—no matter what," returned the widow distractedly. ‘No more, Saling, no more,’ said Mrs Sindlesham in accents of exhaustion. Though he walked by the side of the governor, he seldom
exchanged a word with him, but appeared wholly absorbed in the contemplations
inspired by a broadbowled Dutch pipe. "
He then spoke authoritatively to the girl. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of
bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not
care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to
the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. Then he threw the letter at me. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. But she could tell by the dullness of his eyes that he saw only some inner
vision. "
So saying, he pushed aside the table, and the janizary stooping down, undrew a
bolt and opened a trap-door.
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