She was wearing a
becoming tea-gown, and it was quite certain that Sir John would not be home for
several hours at least. ”
She took the pocket-book and looked up at him with a little impulsive
movement. Blotted out—Love! With infinite care,
through nearly a thousand pages, her father had obliterated the word Love. He stood up, apparently intending to put an arm about her, but she
stepped back from him quickly. About her, as she had gone day by
day to and from the Tredgold College, she had seen and not seen many an
incidental aspect of those sides of life about which girls are expected to know
nothing, aspects that were extraordinarily relevant to her own position and
outlook on the world, and yet by convention ineffably remote. The coachman
answered by a surly grunt, and, plying his whip with redoubled zeal, shaped his
course down Dyot Street; traversed that part of Holborn, which is now called
Broad Street, and where two ancient alms-houses were, then, standing in the
middle of that great thoroughfare, exactly opposite the opening of Compston
Street; and, diving under a wide gateway on the left, soon reached a more open
space, surrounded by mean habitations, coach-houses and stables, called
Kendrick Yard, at the further end of which Saint Giles's round-house was
situated. I have tried not to tell you—tried to be simply your friend. And even she was forced to admit to herself that this last resource of hers was a
slender reed on which to lean. Panic leapt into his eyes as he
brought his wrist up just in time to parry the blade. "Well, I've seen many a gallant fellow in my time, Mr. He
felt that he might soon be separated—perhaps, for ever—from the fond little
creature he held in his arms, whom he had always regarded with the warmest
fraternal affection, and the thought of how much she would suffer from the
separation so sensibly affected him, that he could not help joining in her grief. Ah Cum said that it was customary to give the chair
boys small money for rice. ” Michelle replied. But nobody drinks on my
island unless I offer it, which is seldom.
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