Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. “Look at me. "
"Execrable villain!" exclaimed Jack. He
is delightful, is he not?’
‘That will do, Lucilla. He moved her dress from her shoulders
and off her torso. “Has she ever thought of buying a pair of foam
earplugs?”
Lucy asked. ’
‘Indeed? Interesting. But he was now too deeply moved to trace a certain
unsatisfactoriness to its source in a mixture of metaphors. He is big and powerful; one of those
drinkers who show it but little outwardly. As
he passed the Six Bells, he noticed the steeds of the two horsemen at the door;
and glancing into the house, perceived the younger of the two in the passage. . The policemen were closing in
from the sides to intervene. "I don't know. You did not marry her because you loved
her; you did not marry because she might have had money; you did not marry
her out of gratitude; you did not marry her because you had to. "
"How?"
"Listen to me, Thames.
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