’
‘Oh, you are, are you?’ said the nun, evidently not mollified, but she was
forestalled. . ”
CONTENTS
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came
down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have
things out with her father that very evening. Ramage’s bitterness passed as abruptly as his aggression. The one fault, indeed, of this school of
fiction for him was that it had rather a light way with parental rights. “I believe that you are quite safe. He was alone, hatless and without his boots, and he held a
wicked-looking French-made duelling pistol, covered in silver and gold—
property no doubt, was Melusine’s fleeting thought, of the late vicomte. “Don’t you understand, Nigel,” she said softly, “that it was precisely for this I
have worked so hard. So that the
thought of Ann Veronica up-stairs had been extremely painful for her through all
the silent dinner-time that night. Even when you've a knave to deal with, let your actions
be plain, and above-board. He was a little impressed by Ann
Veronica’s metaphor of the string, which, indeed, she owed to Hetty Widgett. The challenge gave her
courage. His back was no sooner turned, than she slipped this casket into
the box. Anna leaned over so that he needed only to whisper. Here was an appalling fact: all her previous loneliness had been
trifling beside that which now encompassed her and would for years to come.
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