He was halfway across the ballroom, where the dancing had ceased for the
musicians to take a well-earned rest, when Roding pounced on him. ”
“But you,” she exclaimed, “you are not coming. It mattered not whether she flunked the year as she
would soon be gone. Eggs were procured
for her, and she sat out the subsequent emotions and eloquence with the dignity
becoming an injured lady of good family. When her shock and the headache subsided, and she
remembered that she had been reading the letter when Gosse had accosted her,
she looked for it in vain. Don’t think it was anything better than fever—or a bit beautiful. ‘And why not?’
‘Because,’ Gerald said matter of factly, ‘convent-bred jeune demoiselles do
not commonly know how to handle either pistols or daggers. She resolved to walk across the Park to
the Zoological gardens, and so on by way of Primrose Hill to Hampstead Heath. One
called Waterman's Hall, a horrible place adjoining the postern under the gate,
whence, through a small barred aperture, they solicited alms from the
passengers: the other, a large chamber, denominated My Lady's Hold, was
situated in the highest part of the jail, at the northern extremity. Wanting his coat, when he must have known that the pockets
were empty! But the effort to talk had cost him something.
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