And shall their wretched offspring live to blight my hopes, and blast my fame?
Never!" And, with these words, he grasped Wood by the throat, and, despite his
resistance, dragged him to the very verge of the platform. If she had once known him, if he
were some former neighbour, it would be comprehensible. Men and women
are not established things; they’re experiments, all of them. Indeed, it was his boast that he could find his way
through any part of London blindfolded; and by this time, it would seem, he had
nearly arrived at his destination; for, grasping his companion's arm, he led him
along a narrow entry which did not appear to have an outlet, and came to a halt. “Who did you live with before the
Becks? I hear things. “You know about my
scandalous past?”
“Very little. She was recalling the
circumstances under which she had engaged herself to Manning, and trying to
understand a curious development of the quality of this relationship. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. ”
“A—marriage certificate!” Annabel gasped. Tell me, Sir," she added, with forced calmness, and grasping Wood's arm;
"what has Jack done? Tell me in a word, that I may know the worst.
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