Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer
than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have
prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and
be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly
and die as disgracefully as his father. “You see, dear, one IS passionately anxious for something—what is it? One
wants to be CLEAN. ”
“Yes,” said Ann Veronica. But he was so feeble, that it seemed scarcely possible he
could offer any effectual resistance in case of an attack. ”
“Can’t we arrange something? Can’t we make a sort of treaty?”
“He wouldn’t keep it. ”
He beamed upon her. ‘Exactement. Now he thought she was so foolish that she knew only one stroke. "
"Poh! poh!" rejoined Ireton; "it was mere idle boasting. ‘Oh my God,’ uttered Gerald in some dismay. He's now in spring-ankle warehouse with Sir Rowland Trenchard. She took up a book and threw it down again. ]
THE RAGGED EDGE
BY HAROLD MACGRATH
AUTHOR OF DRUMS OF JEOPARDY, ETC.
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