At present the world
waits for that writer, and the confused record of the newspapers remains the only
resource of the curious. You and I. He sat down beside her and stroked her hair. Go up and get
my daughter so we can have some homemade pie. ”
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
THE SAPPHIRE RING
Part 1
For a time that ring set with sapphires seemed to be, after all, the satisfactory
solution of Ann Veronica’s difficulties. Before the congregation separated, the clergyman descended from the pulpit;
and, followed by the coffin-bearers and mourners, and by Jack at a respectful
distance, entered the churchyard. “You did your best to kill me,” he said. But the offences I have committed are
venial in comparison with what I should commit were I to wed your father. She was suddenly grave. To a woman she might have confided; but
to this man, kindly as he was, it was unthinkable. Brown was
no fool, and he understood the sudden onus of the other
children to share the limelight. She meant to leave anyway, or so
she would tell herself later. You know not in what dark places my life has been
cast; with what crimes it has been stained.
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