‘Her purpose, if you will
believe me, is to get herself a dowry so that she may marry an Englishman. Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. The latter looked very pale, either from
the effect of his wound, which was not yet entirely healed, or from suppressed
emotion,—partly, perhaps, from both causes,—and wore his left arm in a sling. "
"Why not?" rejoined Mrs. A pity you did not think to tell me that part of the tale at the
outset. So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back
feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty
glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage
sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face,
and made to speak and said nothing. What of that?"
"Vot 'o that!" echoed Sharples, peevishly: "Everythin'. The intense darkness added to the
terror of the storm. The burden of decision had
been transferred. "
"That's what troubles me," rejoined Ben. Wood
fancied he heard the exulting laugh of Jonathan Wild. It is extraordinary. Seeing the footman about to follow her in, Gerald clamped a hand onto his
shoulder. Take him away," he added, striding up to Charcam.
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