He only laughed his defiance. ”
Chapter II
THE ADVENTURE OF ANNABEL
The man spoke mercilessly, incisively, as a surgeon. “I don’t care what any one thinks,” said Ann Veronica. He was also, had she
known it, more than a little insincere. Her fanciful imagination no longer drew
pictures of the aunt in the doorway of a wooden house, her arms extended in
welcome. "Spring!—I never knew any. I've got an address here. The business of
serving gave Gerald a few moment’s grace, for he was dubious about the effect
on an elderly female, not in the best of health, of raking up old memories. “One is always playing the surgeon, one
kills always the thing one loves best. The gentleman
catched him i' th' fact, and we shut him up for safety i' that pris'n. Talked about his years, his position and his constituents, and always sneaked
off back to his hotel just when the fun was going to begin. It was in the quiet streets and squares toward Oxford Street that it first came
into her head disagreeably that she herself was being followed. "You hear," pursued Jonathan; "my friend desires to know if you are willing to
pay your footing as a member of the ancient and respectable fraternity of
debtors?"
"I owe no man a farthing, and my name shall never appear in any such rascally
list," replied Wood angrily. “What do you mean, hanging round with my wife?” he answered fiercely.
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