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CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
ANN VERONICA PUTS THINGS IN ORDER
Part 1
Ann Veronica made a strenuous attempt to carry out her good resolutions. A row of magnificent, and even then venerable, elms threw
their broad arms over this pleasant spot. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed
charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase,
surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd
miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope
and Dumas, cheek by jowl. 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. It has been already intimated that Jack had an
excessive passion for finery; and it might have been added, that the chief part of
his ill-gotten gains was devoted to the embellishment of his person. Accepting his glass from the butler, Gerald glanced at Mrs Sindlesham and
saw a dimple peep out. "But, pardon my
intrusion. Giles's was lined with spectators. Sheppard, vainly trying to discover a gleam of compassion
in the thief-taker's inexorable countenance,—"Mercy! mercy!"
"Pshaw!" rejoined Jonathan.
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