‘Else she would not have married
that ne’er-do-well only because Jarvis proposed him to her. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. Even
her debt to him was a triviality now. ”
“All these things,” he muttered bitterly, “this desperate resolve to take your life
into your own hands, your unnatural craving for independence, would never
trouble you for a moment—if you really cared. “What I mean is. You
couldn’t help it. But then Lady Palsworthy had never seen Ann Veronica
running like the wind at hockey. “I can’t imagine, Miss Pellissier,” Brendon said, leaning towards her, “whatever
made you think of coming to stay if only for a week at a Montague Street
boarding-house. Somewhere in the world there was a book clerk with a discerning
mind; for he had given her the best he had. He had meant to be master of his fate that evening
and it had escaped him altogether. ‘Oh! little Vee!’ he cried, ‘little Vee!’ and
put his face between his hands and sat still for a long time before he broke out
again. "
"Well, imagination beats me!"
"It's something Ruth saw. ’
‘Oh, that tragic pair,’ uttered her ladyship in saddened tones. At the door to the kitchen, he
called out, ‘Pottiswick!’
The old man came out, shoving his chin in the air and glaring.
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