There was going to be no quarter
between these two. “And of course
you are my niece just as Annabel is, although I am sorry to learn that your
conduct has been much less discreet than hers. She
knew that the stairs they had to negotiate to the vestry were extremely narrow,
and she had made her plans. All four people moved a little nervously into the drawing-room, maintaining a
sort of fluttered amiability of sound and movement. ”
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. "Where did you get this from?" asked Wild, greatly surprised at the result of his
investigation. ‘She?’
‘Damnation!’ He saw her frown, and added at once, ‘I beg your pardon,
ma’am. Moments are ages now. Get me an interview
with her. The coachman
answered by a surly grunt, and, plying his whip with redoubled zeal, shaped his
course down Dyot Street; traversed that part of Holborn, which is now called
Broad Street, and where two ancient alms-houses were, then, standing in the
middle of that great thoroughfare, exactly opposite the opening of Compston
Street; and, diving under a wide gateway on the left, soon reached a more open
space, surrounded by mean habitations, coach-houses and stables, called
Kendrick Yard, at the further end of which Saint Giles's round-house was
situated. "This young fool is come to
restore the article—whatever it may be—which Lady Trafford was anxious to
conceal, and which his companion purloined. Why? He could preach the Word and
deny Love!—tame the savage heart, succour broken white men!—pray with his
face strained with religious fervour! The idea made her dizzy because it was so
inexplicable.
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