Wood,—"he'll never mend. But never had the hand touched her with a father's caress;
never had he taken her into his arms; never had he kissed her. ’
‘Bon,’ exclaimed Melusine, triumph soaring. "At length, my vengeance is complete. “I suppose, daddy, you’ve no objection to my going on with my work at the
Imperial College?” she asked. "
Upon this he arose, and paced the room hastily backwards and forwards, as if
further arranging his plans. His smile faded. She could not help but admit
that she liked being smiled at and addressed in the
hallways by hordes of friendly faces. As the lapse of time and change of circumstances have wrought a remarkable
alteration in the appearance of the poor widow, it may not be improper to notice
it here. "This is the explanation of the bloody deed. ”
CONTENTS
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came
down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have
things out with her father that very evening. “I’m five years older
than you, and no end wiser, being a man. Ann Veronica looked up at him and found him regarding her with eyes that
were almost woebegone, and into which, indeed, he was trying to throw much
more expression than they could carry. In one hand she carried
a long-stalked red rose, dripping with dew, in the other the post-bag. There were seven tales in all—short stories—a method of expression quite
strange to her, after the immense canvases of Dickens and Hugo.
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