”
Ann Veronica was deciding for further confidences. Turning off again
on the left, down Seacoal Lane, they arrived at the mouth of a dark, narrow alley,
into which they plunged; and, at the farther extremity found a small yard,
overlooked by the blank walls of a large gloomy habitation. ”
The topic of his invalid wife bored him, and he turned at once to Ann
Veronica. She rose briskly,
turned on the light, and opened Les Misérables to the episode of the dark forest:
where Jean Valjean reaches out and takes Cosette's frightful pail from her
chapped little hands. 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. She wanted
to scream, but there was no one to scream for. You are taking it for granted that I am ‘Alcide. God bless you, Auntie! I'll go
into the mills and make pulp with my bare hands, if you want me to. But I want to know whether in such an event you would stand by
me?”
She held out her hand.
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