Nothing disheartened by this survey, Jack set to work upon the lock, which he
attacked with all his implements;—now attempting to pick it with the nail;—
now to wrench it off with the bar: but all without effect. 186
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A SEDUCTION, 1983
Christmas season came and went, and with it
Christmas Break. ”
“You are separated from your wife?”
“Yes, but do you know how?”
“Not exactly. But go thither at once, I beseech you, before he has time to remove them. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. Later, when the Reverend Henry Dolby entered the Spurlock room, his wife and
daughter trailing amusedly behind him, and beheld the strained eagerness on the
two young faces, he smiled inwardly and indulgently. “I don’t think our engagement can go on,” she plunged, and felt exactly that
loss of breath that comes with a dive into icy water. “Very big steps, moves fast. “I cannot say more. The job is easy. ’”
She played “If I Were a Rich Man,” adding syrupy
trills and flourishes at every phrase. The arrested women were herded in a passage of the Panton Street
Police-station that opened upon a cell too unclean for occupation, and most of
them spent the night standing.
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