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Ann Veronica flung away from her hand, and the pepper-pot on the tray upset,
sending a puff of pepper into the air and instantly filling them both with an
intense desire to sneeze. "Where is it?"
"Are you the mother of this child?" inquired the person who had first spoken,
addressing Mrs. ‘Do you not
understand that I can trust no one—no one?’
‘That is a pity,’ Gerald said, rising to face her. “You remember the man in Paris who used to follow me about—Meysey Hill
they called him?”
He nodded. ’
‘Which is exactly what started us off,’ Gerald said to his friend with a grin, as
he gave up his injured hand to the other’s ministrations. From the first I
could see that neither believed my story. It took
my breath away. “They seem smaller, you know, even physically smaller,” she said. The boy had all kinds of opportunity; but it's the old story of father making
it too easy. And, as he was about to put himself into a posture of defence, his mother clasped
him in her arms. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. ‘Oh, I don’t wish to marry you. Looked all over
that dratted convent of yours—or at least Trodger and the men did so—but no
sign of them.
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