"
"I cannot consent to it," replied Sir Rowland firmly. Your career at
the bar had given you a command of language, also a self-control not vouchsafed
to us ordinary mortals. "
CHAPTER XX
To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting
out the old world. After the first violent outbreak of grief had in some degree subsided, Thames
addressed him. Upstairs, in the little dressing-room, the panel was opened by means of
tugging a small candlesconce in the wall. “How did you hear that?” Lucy’s brows knitted. He had already
shown the covering envelope and its instructions to Ruth, and she had ignored or
misunderstood the warning. ”
She shook her head deliberately, hopelessly. There was
a gulf of eight years between her and the youngest of her brace of sisters—an
impassable gulf inhabited chaotically by two noisy brothers. He was always visualizing the Hand whenever he let his gaze rest upon
the horizon. ”
“Then, by God!” he said, “you’ll be locked up!”
Ann Veronica was disconcerted for a moment. “Thanks, Mister McCloskey. He seemed to have shrunken in his seat. Already Cosette was her chosen friend. ”
“It was Cheveney!” he said slowly.
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