Do you have family that I should
ask?”
“Oh, Julian! No, my family is dead, lost. She felt a semi-sharp object being gently impressed
into her back. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while
she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau
counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small,
whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into
the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and
her bags. But if I were you, I shouldn't
warn Spurlock. By your
own showing you are in easy circumstances,—for it is only natural to presume
that a man who owes nothing must be in a condition to pay liberally,—and you
cannot therefore feel the loss of such a trifle as ten guineas. She felt very cool as he
opened the door for her, as if she should have chic
sunglasses and stiletto heels on, dark red lipstick. She would wake in the night to
repeat her bitter cry: “Oh, why did I burn those notes?”
It added greatly to the annoyance of the situation that she had twice seen
Ramage in the Avenue since her return to the shelter of her father’s roof. But this wild scheme was speedily abandoned; and, nerved by despair,
the carpenter resolved to hazard an attempt, from the execution, almost from the
contemplation, of which he had hitherto shrunk.
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