‘Talk to me another time. Ann Veronica found herself in the presence of the most disconcerting fact in
human experience, the kindliness of people you believe to be thoroughly wrong. "
"Alice in Wonderland!" cried Prudence, perhaps a little enviously. Lord Charvill’s sense of justice would not, however, allow him to repudiate his
granddaughter, if indeed this female proved to be the infant lost to the family so
many years ago. If I
had known that you had meant to talk like this I wouldn’t have come here. "Couldn't you speak to him?"
"What?—and be insulted for my trouble? No, thank you!"
"That is it. She forgot Anna’s
sacrifices, forgot her own callousness, forgot the burden which she had fastened
upon her sister’s shoulders. Then she called a hansom and drove home. Every moment or two he bent over his
patient. Do not waste time in vain
regrets, but let us remove the body, that we may fulfil her last injunctions. While he was thus musing, two horsemen rode
past him; and, proceeding to a little distance, stopped likewise. "
"Better she die by her own hand, than by that monster's," cried Jack, brandishing
the bar. "
"Let this speak for me," said Sheppard, tossing a heavy bag of money towards
him.
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