It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. The study seemed absolutely unaltered, there was still
the same lamp with a little chip out of the shade, still the same gas fire, still the
same bundle of blue and white papers, it seemed, with the same pink tape about
them, at the elbow of the arm-chair, still the same father. 238
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IN BED
John drove her home after school nearly every day. "
"Heaven have compassion on you, Rowland!" murmured his sister, crossing her
hands and looking upwards; "you have none on me. My birth
certificate was destroyed when the county building it was
housed in burned down. How could she tell him what indeed already began to
puzzle herself, why she had borrowed that money at all? The plain fact was that
she had grabbed a bait. All the assemblage,
accompanied by Jonathan, set off in this direction, when it turned out that the
supposed housebreaker was a harmless beggar, who had been found asleep under
a hedge. . His
manner, however, was as stern and haughty as ever, and his glances retained
their accustomed fire. "
CHAPTER XX
To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting
out the old world. . Your attitude to
me—”
He fell into a brown study.
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