Mr. . Strange!" he added, as the
groom departed; "Bay Stuart has carried me through a hundred dangers, but
never played me such a trick before. It was dawn: Cathy would soon be off to the
restaurant and Larry off to paint a house. The
postilion obeyed, and dashed off as hard as his horses could gallop along the
beautiful road leading to Neasdon and Willesden, just as the serving-men made
their appearance. "Come along, my sly shaver. And Ann Veronica walked
beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she
had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together,
rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she
escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand
nights” in his company. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so
—“will say! What are we to tell people?
“Besides, what am I to tell your father?”
At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to
return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an
enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her
flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent
consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it
became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the
position of things if she returned. "I repeat," said Ah Cum, "that the venture is not propitious.
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