McClintock's was a plantation of ten thousand palms, yielding him annually
about half a million nuts. Perhaps it
had been pick-pocketed or jostled from her dress in a
hunt. Arrived at the extremity of the building,
he found that it overlooked the flat-roof of a house which, as far as he could
judge in the darkness, lay at a depth of about twenty feet below. But it never said: "Tell someone! Tell someone!" Was he something of a moral
pervert, then? Was it what he had lost—the familiar world—rather than what he
had done?
He stared dully at the footrail. Ann Veronica felt suddenly an effect of tremendous
pathos; she would have given anything to have been able to frame and make
some appeal, some utterance that should bridge this bottomless chasm that had
opened between her and her father, and she could find nothing whatever to say
that was in the least sincere and appealing. That is why I would not marry this man whom I did and whom I do
care for a little. "
"Oh God!" exclaimed Jack, paralysed by her cries. "
"You did right," returned Trenchard. Panting with effort, she held her point menacingly at Gosse’s chest. It was
astonishing how seldom it was that his instincts betrayed him.
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