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A broken laugh followed the
action. ”
She interrupted as Ann Veronica was about to speak again, with a bright
contagious hopefulness. To-morrow night
—or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure
him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and,
then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. Sheppard, with a frenzied laugh. “I knew you would feel
it,” said Miss Miniver, as they came away flushed and heated. He agreed
it was disgraceful. "Now, then, Saint Giles!" interposed Sheppard, "are we to be kept here all
night?"
"Eh day!" exclaimed Sharples: "wot new-fledged bantam's this?"
"One that wants to go to roost," replied Sheppard. "
"You have always spoken it?"
"Yes; except for some native. “You poor child!” he said; “don’t
you see the infinite folly of these proceedings? Think! Think of the love and
affection you abandon! Think of your aunt, a second mother to you. The girl was like some north-country woodland pool, penetrated by a
single shaft of sunlight—beautifully clear in one spot and mysteriously obscured
elsewhere. Once a week, every
Saturday, they had a little gathering from nine till the small hours, just talk and
perhaps reading aloud and fruitarian refreshments—chestnut sandwiches
buttered with nut tose, and so forth—and lemonade and unfermented wine; and
to one of these symposia Miss Miniver after a good deal of preliminary
solicitude, conducted Ann Veronica.
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