”
She brought her knees up to her chest, and rocked
back and forth like a small child. What sort of a standard of life
yours may be I do not know, yet in your heart you know very well that every
word you have spoken to me has been a veiled insult, every time you have come
into my presence has been an outrage. ‘Then it is that you will have pity? Here we have
come, we poor, for aid. 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. “Yes! I must! The thing is becoming a torture to me. Reconnoitring them through a small grated loophole, he refused to open the door
till they had explained their business. Your laugh
reminds me of—of——"
"Whose, Sir?" demanded Jackson, becoming suddenly grave. “Hello, Teddy!” she answered. “Don’t be an ass, Ferringhall,” he said tersely. ‘It is necessary that one is at all times ready to protect oneself,’ explained the
young lady flatly.
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