On the right, stood a bulky figure, with a
broken rattle hanging out of his great-coat pocket, who held up a lantern to his
battered countenance to prove to the spectators that both his orbs of vision were
darkened: on the left, a meagre constable had divested himself of his shirt, to
bind up with greater convenience a gaping cut in the arm. He looked at her reproachfully. "If things had gone smoothly," he thought, "I should have cursed the fellow's
stupidity. When she saw Ann Veronica she stood for a moment as if
entranced, and then advanced with outstretched hands. As if we didn’t know! The practical trouble is our ages. ’
‘But I find it was extremely kind of him,’ protested Melusine, ‘and since it is
that he is not any more under arrest—’
‘No, he ain’t,’ interrupted Trodger in some dudgeon. Your
family has not sullied itself by dabbling in it, at least not
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from what I know, so now is not the time to begin. I cannot
have my wife distressed or worried. "
He shook his head.
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