Ann Veronica was not aware of this literary side of her teacher; she had a little
tinge of annoyance at Miss Garvice’s advantage. He had seldom been more
perturbed. "Adieu,
my worthy uncle. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. “Only it is much too late for you to be out alone. "Bolt the wicket!" shouted Ireton, who, with the others, had been not a little
entertained by the gallant turnkey's discomfiture. But the rise of the chest was quite perceptible now. "I suspect our friend has thought better of it, and won't come," he remarked. "Blueskin," said Jonathan, as that worthy was about to follow, "I advise you to
remain with me. ‘Have I not said so?’
‘No, as it happens. He was a comforting,
humorous old ruffian; but there were few men in the Orient more deeply read in
psychology and physiognomy. But the current
rumblings of internal discontent across the Channel were productive of unease in
certain quarters.
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