It happened that at the extremest point of Ann Veronica’s
social circle from the Widgetts was the family of the Morningside Park horsedealer, a company of extremely dressy and hilarious young women, with one
equestrian brother addicted to fancy waistcoats, cigars, and facial spots. ”
“So far as one can judge from the system in practice,” said Ann Veronica,
speaking in a loud, common-sense, detached tone, and beginning to walk slowly
but resolutely toward the lawn, “it doesn’t work. I had gone
further than I meant to—with some Englishmen. She had a gold watch, a
very good gold watch that had been her mother’s, a pearl necklace that was also
pretty good, some unpretending rings, some silver bangles and a few other such
inferior trinkets, three pounds thirteen shillings unspent of her dress and book
allowance and a few good salable books. The fates are never so kind to
me. He heard the struggle on the landing, the fall of the heavy body, the
groan,—and excited almost to frenzy by his fears, he succeeded in forcing open
the door. ToC
The ward into which Jack was endeavouring to break was called the Red Room,
from the circumstance of its walls having once been painted in that colour; all
traces of which had, however, long since disappeared. He then unlocked a cabinet, opened a secret drawer,
and, lifter ransacking its contents, discovered a paper he was in search of, and a
glove. No man knew whence she had come nor why.
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