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Nothing, in short, was too extravagant
to be related of it; and Jonathan, who delighted in investing himself and his
residence with mystery, encouraged, and perhaps originated, these marvellous
tales. She had been fighting down this thought for
days: that Hoddy did not care, that he did not love her, that he had mistaken a
vagary of the mind for a substance, and now regretted what he had done—
married a girl who was not his equal in anything. “I suppose a girl MUST be underpaid and sweated,” said Ann Veronica. You'll tell me next, I dare say, that I recommended you to go and
visit his mother so frequently under the plea of charity; to give her wine, and
provisions, and money; to remove her from the only fit quarters for such people
—the Mint; and to place her in a cottage at Willesden, of which you must needs
pay the rent? Marry, come up! charity should begin at home. It is true that I
do not love Ruth; but I swear to you, before the God of my fathers, that she shall
never know it!"
"I'll be getting along. ”
Ann Veronica turned her back on the Michaelmas daisies, and faced toward
the house with an air of a duty completed. You've a good deal to go through to-night. She tiptoed to the stand and gathered up the
manuscripts which she carried to a chair by the window. ”
She hesitated and looked for a moment straight into his eyes. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of
the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the
bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these
circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination.
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