Winifred Wood was now in her twentieth year. A little darling? Lord in heaven, he had taken leave of his senses. Her mind turned and
accused itself of having been cold and hard. ‘You!’
‘Yes, it is I, mademoiselle,’ he continued in his own tongue. The mere enumeration of the obstacles that existed would have deterred any
spirit less daring than Sheppard's from even hazarding the attempt. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Asking her way once or twice, she passed
along Fleet Street into the Strand, and crossed Trafalgar Square, into Piccadilly. Ann Veronica thought the whole
affair rather jolly. It added to the
picturesqueness of the Sha-mien night to observe these gaily coloured lanterns
dancing hither and yon like June fireflies in a meadow. ”
“One has theories,” said Ann Veronica, radiantly. “I was never so clear in all my life
as I have been in this business. "
"You want another drubbing, I perceive," said Thames, frowning. He has no imagination, no real generosity. ”
She said. ’
‘Never mind the comtesse,’ adjured Prudence.
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