But it
was not adieu, so she promised her old nurse. Such a time that it
takes for them to go. ”
Even in the glamour of Miss Brett’s assurance it seemed to Ann Veronica that
this was, after all, no more than the gospel of Miss Miniver with a new set of
resonances. "Good bye!" cried Jack, as if taking leave of his mistresses, "to-morrow, at the
same time. ”
“That is another French custom,” he remarked, “which is not so agreeable. "You'll not forget the thousand, Sir Rowland—short accounts, you know. His eyes were closed. You know that, and I know that, though we might be put to it to
find a reason why. I wanted to speak to you first. Boys,
at the time of which we write, were attired like men of their own day, or certain
charity-children of ours; and the stripling in question was dressed in black plush
breeches, and a gray drugget waistcoat, with immoderately long pockets, both of
which were evidently the cast-off clothes of some one considerably his senior. And when I have steeped him to the lips in vice and
depravity; when I have led him to the commission of every crime; when there is
neither retreat nor advance for him; when he has plundered his benefactor, and
broken the heart of his mother—then—but not till then, I will consign him to the
fate to which I consigned his father. I was at work at it yesterday and the day before. "
And, having partaken of a hasty breakfast, he set out. The train, meantime, had passed Marylebone Lane, when it again paused for a
moment, at Jack's request, near the door of a public-house called the City of
Oxford. It was dusty, with dirty clothing strewn
about, a cracked basin thick with grime on the rickety dresser, and a film of
grease on the leaded casement.
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