The soldiers surrounded the cart, drew their swords, and by striking the
rioters first with the blunt edge of their blades, and afterwards with the sharp
points, succeeded in driving them back. Stanley,
putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor,
and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity,
asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do
you propose to live?”
“I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica. “Nothing. She had not thought anything could equal her despair at that moment. ”
“Not yet,” he said. Courtlaw,” she remarked. Meantime, the Stone Hall was crowded by all the inmates of the jail, debtors,
felons, turnkeys, and officers who could obtain permission to witness the
ceremony of the prisoner's irons being struck off. ”
“Go!” She did not understand him at first, and then her heart began to beat
very rapidly. ”
They were in the elder Widgett girl’s bedroom; Hetty was laid up, she said,
with a sprained ankle, and a miscellaneous party was gossiping away her tedium. “How dared you do yourself
this injustice?”
“I did it for her sake,” she answered. She flung aside every plan she had in life, every discretion. “It is in your hands from now on, Shar.
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