Jack submitted to this scrutiny with a very
bad grace, and vehemently protested his innocence. The next morning came a compact
letter from her father. The train, meantime, had passed Marylebone Lane, when it again paused for a
moment, at Jack's request, near the door of a public-house called the City of
Oxford. He
pulled on her shoulder, bringing her mouth to his in a
kiss. But in its stead—toward
morning—there appeared another idea which appealed to him as sublime,
appealed to the primitive conscience, to his artistic sense of the drama, to the
poet and the novelist in him. The silence grew
unbearable, so she asked, \"What is your surname, John?\"
\"My surname? You mean my last name?\"
\"Yes. ”
“It’s all the same,” said Miss Miniver. The echo of those kindly words seemed still to ring
in her ears. Think how free that leaves me to follow things up! I
must take you everywhere. ”
Her breath left her for a moment. He glanced at Ruth (who had stood with her back
to the wall, pinned there throughout the contest by terror and the knowledge of
her own helplessness), then at the bronze menace, and calculated correctly that
this particular adventure was finished. A woman touched him lightly on the arm, and
smiled into his face. "
Animated by his insatiate desire of vengeance, he seemed to gain strength daily,
—so much so, that within a fortnight after receiving his wound he was able to
stir abroad. ”
He was a little bewildered.
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