Spurling was in a state of distraction and began to abuse
Jonathan so violently that her future husband was obliged to lay forcible hands
upon her and drag her away. He was not, in truth, much of a
ladies’ man. He heard the panting of the
donkey-engine, then the slithering of the anchor chains. She romanticized, imagining a life on
the High Seas. There, after protestations of friendliness and helpfulness that were almost ardent,
he mounted a little clumsily and rode off at an amiable pace, looking his best,
making a leg with his riding gaiters, smiling and saluting, while Ann Veronica
turned northward and so came to Micklechesil. Talk to her of the new
story; divert her; for this day her heart has been twisted sorely. “I would not have you go for anything,” she answered. Unobserved, she knelt and kissed the threshold: for she knew what kisses were
now. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account.
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