’
‘Remenham House,’ exclaimed Trodger, who had been watching this
interchange open-mouthed. Jonathan Wild must
have stolen it from her. " The cost of the building exceeded seventeen thousand
pounds. ’
‘But it was not your fault,’ protested Gosse, shocked. ’ With an air of real interest, he asked, ‘I suppose you did not dig a tunnel or
fly in by balloon?’
The lady gazed at him blankly. "
He started to pick up a sheet of manuscript, but she pushed him from the table
toward the doorway; and he staggered out of the bungalow, suddenly stretched
his arms, and broke into a trot. They were in many respects so right; she clung to that, and
shirked more and more the paradoxical conviction that they were also somehow,
and even in direct relation to that rightness, absurd. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. But don't suppose, Madam, that anything I say has reference to you. Didn’t you feel rather
EVENTFUL—in the train—coming up to Waterloo?”
Part 6
Before Christmas Ann Veronica had gone to Ramage again and accepted this
offer she had at first declined. YOU did. The hope that had been suddenly kindled in the youth's bosom was as suddenly
extinguished.
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