He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. Jarvis
did not leave a will. Immediately she had spoken of the loose button he knew that henceforth he must
show no concern over the disposition of that coat. ‘What is this proof?’
‘I will not tell you. He must be gone to dispose of the body. “I will tell you the truth. You have converted me to—Lester Ward! You are
my dear friend, you are a slip of a girl, but there are moments when my head has
been on your breast, when your heart has been beating close to my ears, when I
have known you for the goddess, when I have wished myself your slave, when I
have wished that you could kill me for the joy of being killed by you. “I think everything’s right,” said Ann Veronica, with the roaming eye of a
capable but not devoted house-mistress. Neither would she allow herself
to feel guilty nor would she allow him to find a way into
the house. His
assistance came too late. "
"Oh, I see. Between herself and yonder
evil mind she had the strongest buckler God could give—love. I'll eat them when we start. And thus he effected his escape from the New Prison.
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