There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. ”
For a time she sat on a rail before leaving the road for the downland turf. It was just
then that she came face to face with Nigel Ennison. She ought to have been disposed to faint and scream at all these
happenings; she ought to have maintained a front of outraged dignity to veil the
sinking of her heart. "
"My dear," observed Wood, "you should be more charitable—"
"Charitable!" repeated his wife, "that's your constant cry. It was wonderful to think this thing had lived, had felt and suffered. It keeps dangling
in front of my eyes. ’
‘Ain’t you in a rage?’ asked the captain. “Grail!” said Ann Veronica, and then: “Oh, yes—of course! Anything but a
holy one, I’m afraid. . But tell me how have
you escaped from the confinement in which you were placed—come and sit by
me—here—upon the bed—give me your hand—and tell me all about it. ”
“She’s coming on,” said Capes.
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