Except for one memorable school excursion to Paris, Ann Veronica had never
yet been outside England. Fifteen from forty is twenty-five. \"I told you he likes you!\" She whispered hotly into
Lucy's ear. But it was only six-thirty. ToC
Twelve years! How many events have occurred during that long interval! how
many changes have taken place! The whole aspect of things is altered. I knew him in
spite of his dress. I'll turn cracksman, like my father—rob old
Wood—he has chests full of money, and I know where they're kept—I'll rob
him, and give the swag to you, Poll—I'll—"
Jack would have said more; but, losing his balance, he fell to the ground, and,
when taken up, he was perfectly insensible. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. Both the fugitive and his chasers embarked on the
Thames. ’
‘Well, sir? Who is “she”? Not my granddaughter, I take it. ‘But it is entirely natural that I choose my own
country. "
The girl smiled and began to munch a sandwich. True, on board the
ships she had watched young men from afar, but only with that normal curiosity
which is aroused in the presence of any new species. Lucy felt herself go very red in the cheeks and
lowered her hand rather slowly.
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