Part 2
In the late afternoon, as Ann Veronica was gathering flowers for the dinnertable, her father came strolling across the lawn toward her with an affectation of
great deliberation. I would have heard her. All we have to apprehend is a rescue. And if he
didn’t, what was the good of seeing him?
“I wish he was a woman,” she said, “then I could make him my friend. “Just hope that the ground doesn’t shift and unearth
them. "
"Ay, ay," observed Jonathan, "you'll give the keepers of his Majesty's jails some
trouble before you're many years older, I'll warrant you. ’
‘And you believe her?’ asked Lucilla, raising her brows. "I did not come hither to consult you as to the state of my health, Sir," he
observed, displeased by Jonathan's allusion to the alteration in his appearance. ’
‘I don’t even know your granddaughter, ma’am. And not only did these tentacular generalizations
gather all the facts of natural history and comparative anatomy together, but they
seemed always stretching out further and further into a world of interests that lay
altogether outside their legitimate bounds. A faint
anticipation of triumph showed in his manner and a subdued excitement. At the first glance, he imagined he must have stumbled upon a museum of
rarities, there were so many glass-cases, so many open cabinets, ranged against
the walls; but the next convinced him that if Jonathan was a virtuoso, his tastes
did not run in the ordinary channels. But what I do is based upon the fact that
he is one of those individuals who are conscience-driven. ’ He shifted unguardedly, and hissed a breath, wincing.
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