”
So that was it!
“He came and talked to me. ”
She marked an hotel that seemed neither opulent nor odd in a little side street
opening on the Embankment, made up her mind with an effort, and, returning by
Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo, took a cab to this chosen refuge with her two
pieces of luggage. Wood, bursting into tears, "God
bless you!"
Jack extended his hand towards him, and looked anxiously for Thames; but he
was nowhere to be seen. Aware of the cunning and desperate
characters of the persons with whom she would have to deal,—aware, also, that
she was in a quarter where no laws could be appealed to, nor assistance obtained,
she felt the absolute necessity of caution. "No," replied Jonathan, "I'll not take you at your word, as regards the latter
proposition. “Not a penny—not one penny—and never
darken your doors again!”
Part 4
The next day her aunt came again and expostulated, and was just saying it was
“an unheard-of thing” for a girl to leave her home as Ann Veronica had done,
when her father arrived, and was shown in by the pleasant-faced landlady. Old Bethlehem, or Bedlam,—every trace of which has been swept away, and the
hospital for lunatics removed to Saint George's Field,—was a vast and
magnificent structure.
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