The ladies were, as usual, very gaily dressed; and as usual, also, had
resorted to art to heighten their attractions—
From patches, justly placed, they borrow'd graces,
And with vermilion lacquer'd o'er their faces. A narrow entry, formed by two low walls, communicated with the main
thoroughfare; and in this passage, under the cover of a penthouse, stood Wood,
with his little burthen, to whom we shall now return. The cloth was removed, and
Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk
—put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best
consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now
be fairly termed—to their own conversation. ‘Aha,’ grunted Gerald with satisfaction, squinting up at the two open shutters
on the second floor. But the young man with the orange tie remained in his place, disputing
whether the body had not something or other which he called its legitimate
claims. ”
Chapter XXVI
ANNABEL IS WARNED
“You!”
David Courtlaw crossed the floor of the dingy little sitting-room with
outstretched hands. ”
Part 6
Then, arising she knew not how, like a new-born appetite, came a craving in
Ann Veronica for the sight and sound of beauty. "
"You never told me what he is like," said Spurlock. “Are you a special sort of clergyman,” she said, after a pause, and
looking down her nose at him, “or do you go to the Universities?”
“Oh!” he said, profoundly. As the secret door opened, the sounds within the house came at once to her
ears: the tramping of feet above, and the hoarse voices echoing through the
mansion. "
"You shall—you shall," answered Jack. ”
He paused for a time. ‘She hasn’t said so, but I presume Valade had got hold of all the useful
papers,’ Gerald went on. But though
the breach was large enough to admit him below, he could not squeeze his bulky
person through the aperture into the Red Room. Ruth loved him.
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