You
can’t! I tell you frankly you may break off your engagement to me—I shall hold
myself still engaged to you, yours just the same. Manned by a couple of watermen, who
rowed with great swiftness, this wherry dashed through the current in the track
of the fugitive, of whom it was evidently in pursuit, and upon whom it
perceptibly gained. ‘But how do you come here?’
‘Down on a routine patrol, unluckily for you,’ he answered grimly. For a moment
she too had started and faltered in her exit from the room. The blue jowl,
the fat-lidded eyes—now merry, now alert, now tungsten hard—the bullet head,
the pudgy fingers and the square-toed shoes were all in conformation with the
doctor's olden mental picture. They would be quite
as entertaining as the histories of Guzman D'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes,
Estevanillo Gonzalez, Meriton Latroon, or any of my favourite rogues,—and far
more instructive. “I won’t go home,” she said; “I won’t!” and she evaded the clutch of the
fatherly policeman and tried to thrust herself past him in the direction of that big
portal. He's young
and sound. And, fearing you might not come to me, I
forced my way hither, even with certainty of discomposing your friends. I’m sorry
Lucy. Wood was not particularly
fortunate in his own matrimonial connections. The chief influence was
her awakening sense of the need of money. ”
Ennison at once seated himself. Then, as she was in the act
of turning reluctantly away, she noticed a thin crack between the door and the
frame. For a long time she surveyed a row of towering holly-hocks, as though they
offered an explanation.
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