Well, let him be honest. She could learn nothing of her son, and only
obtained one solitary piece of information, which added to, rather than alleviated
her misery,—namely, that Jonathan Wild had paid a secret visit to the Cross
Shovels. He had not been successful as the world counted success; the fat
bank-account, the filled waiting room of which he had once dreamed, had never
materialized except in the smoke of his evening pipe. Watching her strip had been delicious for him, and a part
of him enjoyed her self-consciousness acutely. “Never was such an age of transition. I kept them on myself till the sight of your empty
chair and the chill loneliness of it all nearly sent me mad. I must go perhaps in all the rooms. ”
“There IS something sound in that position,” said Capes, intervening as if to
defend Miss Garvice against a possible attack from Ann Veronica. ”
His face darkened. But in a little while you will
awake; and if there is a spark of manhood in you, you will be horrified at this
day's work. Until that
was done a certain experience of life assured him that a girl is a locked coldness
against a man’s approach. These sisters moved
in a grown-up world inaccessible to Ann Veronica’s sympathies, and to a large
extent remote from her curiosity.
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