"Well, like or not, I'm greatly pleased with it, and must beg it from you as a
memorial——"
"Of what?" she interrupted, startled by his change of manner. Anna
followed her finger, and looked back into her sister’s face. Sheppard replied by a solemn assertion, "that he had received no assistance
except from Heaven. She's not for
pleasure, but for work. “All the time he is
shouting and muttering. And I want you for myself—for
my wife. It is for that reason that
this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history
of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell. "That would be certain
destruction. “If you interfere between us,” the man said, “it will go hardly with you. I love some one else. Unless he can arise
from the bottom of the Thames, where he and his abhorred father lie buried, you
will never behold him again in this world. Miss Stanley had determined from the
outset to have the warmest affection for her youngest niece and to be a second
mother in her life—a second and a better one; but she had found much to battle
with, and there was much in herself that Ann Veronica failed to understand. “This,” he said, and then: “No! Is this
sweeter? Very well. Come!”
They went out together and he called a hansom.
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