He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. I don’t see
how they can be. On a pallet in one corner lay a pale emaciated female. "Do you recollect this key? Do you recollect to whom
you gave it, and for what purpose? or shall I refresh your memory?"
Wild appeared confounded. ”
He left at once, immensely relieved, yet scarcely satisfied with himself as
regarded his share of the interview with this young woman. Upstairs, in the little dressing-room, the panel was opened by means of
tugging a small candlesconce in the wall. ‘Do you think I do not know? If this pig has not done so, there would be no
need for me to do it. And, as he was about to put himself into a posture of defence, his mother clasped
him in her arms. I too
can see it. He had only to recall this fact (which he did in each
crisis) to erect a barrier she could not go around or over. ‘You are related to General Lord Charvill?’
‘Monsieur le baron, he is my grandpére,’ she confirmed. "
"Not now, my love—not now," entreated Wood.
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