In military
circles, highly exaggerated tales of Major Alderley’s derring-do were bruited
from lip to lip and passed on to raw recruits to strengthen morale. She remained stonily in the middle of the
hallway until the spinsters' door shut them from view … for ever. But all
of that was forgotten. I was perfectly satisfied with your appearance. “Dear me,” she said, “I fancy you exaggerate my fame. The tension was
palpable. "
The little urchin set off, and presently returned with the sexton. (Fifteen pounds! And she wanted forty!)
Part 4
It was, perhaps, the natural consequence of a long and tiring and exciting day
that Ann Veronica should pass a broken and distressful night, a night in which
the noble and self-subduing resolutions of Canongate displayed themselves for
the first time in an atmosphere of almost lurid dismay. Manning, with an air of emerging from an elaborate
demonstration, “and so each of us must, under existing conditions, being
chivalrous indeed to all women, choose for himself his own particular and
worshipful queen. The last,—in all respects the best and airiest of the three, standing, as
has been before observed, in Phoenix Court, at the rear of the main fabric,—was
reserved for state-offenders, and such persons as chose to submit to the
extortionate demands of the keeper: from twenty to five hundred pounds
premium, according to the rank and means of the applicant, in addition to a high
weekly rent, being required for accommodation in this quarter.
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