And the change, the
change of attitude! The way all the old clingingness has been thrown aside is
amazing. For two
years he thought himself secure; and, secretly engaged in the Jacobite schemes
of the time, in which, also, Sir Cecil was deeply involved, he began to relax in
his watchfulness over Aliva. She was dressed as a white woman should be; and
that for the present satisfied her instincts. Voilà tout. “I’m just off, aunt,” said Ann Veronica. But he was at last
persuaded that I mean you no harm, and that I might—just possibly, since I am
both a gentleman and a major of militia—be able to be of more assistance to you
than he himself. But he was now too deeply moved to trace a certain
unsatisfactoriness to its source in a mixture of metaphors. His perseverance was amply rewarded. Had I not known that you and your
affianced bride are dearer to him than life I should have used this money to
secure my own safety. “Compromise and kindness. Such was the hubbub and tumult around him,
that the carpenter could not hear its plunge into the flood. ”
He beamed upon her. Ann Veronica forgot him as soon as she was through the gate, and her face
resumed its expression of stern preoccupation. Prison was bleak without spaciousness, and pervaded by a
faint, oppressive smell; and she had to wait two hours in the sullenly defiant
company of two unclean women thieves before a cell could be assigned to her.
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