Over these boards the two arms of a guide-post serve to direct the wayfarer—on the right hand to the neighbouring villages of Neasdon and Kingsbury,
and on the left to the Edgeware Road and the healthy heights of Hampstead. And I have
wanted to so very much. See paragraph 1. ”
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
THE SAPPHIRE RING
Part 1
For a time that ring set with sapphires seemed to be, after all, the satisfactory
solution of Ann Veronica’s difficulties. Hartford, Connecticut; she had registered that address; but
there was something so mystifyingly Oriental about her that the address only
thickened the haze behind which she moved. I quickly ingratiated myself to Gianfrancesco, playing
on his insecurities, drawing from his need for more and
more power. Kneebone, I came hither as your
guest. From time to time she would come upon a line of singular beauty or a paragraph
full of haunting music; and these would send her rushing on for something that
never happened. "Aren't you afraid?"
"Of what?"—serenely. "
"The same who was here just now?"
"No, Sir Rowland, a much finer boy. In addition to the various business men, solicitors, civil servants, and widow
ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, there was a certain family of
alien sympathies and artistic quality, the Widgetts, with which Ann Veronica had
become very friendly.
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