Perhaps if I had watched over her more closely, things would have been
different. ”
“And in Paris——”
“In Paris,” he interrupted, “she was a very delightful companion, but beyond that
—one did not take her seriously. The spring can't be opened on
this side. ‘And if not her, for she is dead, then
me. "So
get up, and leave off whimpering. The close-fitting round gown, if a little oldfashioned with its very narrow waist and wide skirts, was becoming on a full
figure, and the low décolletage, unencumbered by any form of covering, exposed
a good deal of bosom. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while
she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau
counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small,
whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into
the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and
her bags. Divers plans and figures were chalked
upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for
the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The
History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an
abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all
manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's
Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend
gentleman and the principal members of his flock. I told
you that at the outset. ”
He made to speak and did not. Brendon dismissed the subject with a wave of the hand.
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