“Thank you,” he said, “for letting me back. Tell me how you are earning your living
here, Anna—typewriting, or painting, or lady’s companion?”
“I think,” Anna said, “that the less you know about me the better. "
"They're lifting her out of the carriage," interposed Charcam; "will it please your
honour to send for some advice and the chaplain?"
"Fly for both," returned Sir Rowland, in a tone of bitter anguish. “You see,” he said, “it is doubtful if we can ever marry. "I can't make you understand; I can't make you see things as I see
them. She began to
weep in long, aching sobs. On the death of his royal patron, he resolved to
return to his own country; and, after various delays, which had postponed it to
the present time, he had succeeded in accomplishing his object. Her attenuated arms were crossed upon her breast; and her black
brows and eyelashes contrasted fearfully with the livid whiteness of her skin. Well, my dear, it is
time you stopped wallowing in your sorrows like a
common wretch. "
The carpenter, upon whom no part of this hurried dialogue had been lost, now
made his appearance, and having obtained from Terence all the information
which that personage could impart respecting the perilous situation of Thames,
he declared himself ready to start to Saint Giles's at once, and ran back to the
room for his hat and stick; expressing his firm determination, as he pocketed his
constable's staff with which he thought it expedient to arm himself, of being
direfully revenged upon the thief-taker: a determination in which he was
strongly encouraged by his wife. There ends
my duty. For the rest, she derived her
ideas of the married state from the observed behavior of married women, which
impressed her in Morningside Park as being tied and dull and inelastic in
comparison with the life of the young, and from a remarkably various reading
among books. ’
‘Lord,’ Gerald murmured, awed more by the outspokenness of his hostess than
by what she had said.
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