Who? Could it be Gerald? Quickly, she looked back at Gosse’s face,
and found him frowning. A farthing candle, stuck in a bottle neck, shed its feeble light upon the table,
which, owing to the provident kindness of Mr. Are
you all here?”
“Five boxes full,” she answered. But about his
unknown rival he was acutely curious. Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. All
the rest of his existence was subordinate to this pursuit; he lived for it, worked
for it, kept himself in training for it. He would condemn her
to the vengeance of the mob all for refusing to marry him. He watched her, savoring her curious attention. But a human being who is young and clean, as you are, is
apt to ennoble—or explain away. Then
a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as
amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined—
to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a
great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon
molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. I WAS talking to him before I saw his
name on the card beside the row of microscopes. But
you, Ferringhall, our pattern, an erstwhile Sheriff of London, a county
magistrate, a prospective politician, a sober and an upright man, one who, had he
aspired to it, might even have filled the glorious position of Lord Mayor—
James, a whisky and Apollinaris at once. One of
your aunts died, I believe, and the other removed to London.
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