“Didn’t you know he was married?” asked Miss Klegg, and was struck by a
thought that made her glance quickly at her companion. “You have the temperament,” he said. Over the Lodge, upon a dial was inscribed the
appropriate motto, "Venio sicut fur. “What made you marry him? What made you
leave Paris without a word to any one? What made you and your sister exchange
identities?”
“There is one answer to all those questions, Nigel,” she said, with a nervous little
shudder. Into this hole in the wall and out of it the native stream flowed from
sunrise to sunset, when the stream mysteriously ceased. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a
large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly
dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal
lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and
tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and
female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in
drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. “I wonder!” said Miss Stanley. 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. "Who is it, Bess?"
"How should I know?" replied Edgeworth Bess. She moved her elbow nearer to him and spoke in a still lower tone. . The act was mechanical,
a bit of sparring for time: his anger was searching about for a new vent.
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