Ousted from his old retreat, the Cross Shovels,
Baptist Kettleby opened another tavern, conducted upon the same plan as the
former, which he denominated the Seven Cities of Refuge. ’
‘Now you come to mention it, it is stupid,’ Gerald said, struck. And with his daughter?’
‘He wrote to Jarvis from an inn in France, saying that he had married
Mademoiselle Valade, and that his baby naturally belonged with her father. She was
marvellously pretty, but he was not quite sure—yet—that it was advisable for
him to sit with her in so public a place. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while
she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau
counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small,
whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into
the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and
her bags. She never had been much of a looker,
but she had stopped worrying about such things long ago. The wings stopped. Is there?”
“Nothing,” said Ann Veronica, with a radiant face. Ennison will make a thousand enemies if he takes you from the stage. She almost laughed, but repressed her
smile lest it seem cruel. Stanley decided to treat that as irrelevant. But he could only discern a black and shapeless mass, floating upon the
water at a little distance, which, to his bewildered fancy, appeared absolutely
standing still. These things were common knowledge among the bon ton, who were
generously welcoming these unfortunate escapees.
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