. But the father, to go his way forever alone!
The iron in the man!—the iron in this child of his!
Wanting a little love, a caress now and then. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. "The warrant for his execution is arrived. “You yourself have decided that—apart from the
question of Annabel. Afterward he stole out of the room with the bloodstained
sheet to boast her virginity to his brothers and father,
which only truly mattered because she was beautiful, her
mother had said. Goopes, Ann Veronica
gathered, was a mathematical tutor and visited schools, and his wife wrote a
weekly column in New Ideas upon vegetarian cookery, vivisection,
degeneration, the lacteal secretion, appendicitis, and the Higher Thought
generally, and assisted in the management of a fruit shop in the Tottenham Court
Road. She answered in whispers,
for there was the white arm of a woman in the next box peeping beyond the
partition within a yard of him. You can tell me the rest another
time. She had
made her way since then a little further into the heart of life. Not alone with her, that’s sure. Her birthday was
four months away, and that, at its extremist point, might give her another five
pounds. How much Mary knew is a mystery.
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