ToC
Jonathan, meanwhile, having ascertained the parentage of the child from Wood,
proceeded to question him in an under tone, as to the probable motives of the
attempt upon its life; and, though he failed in obtaining any information on this
point, he had little difficulty in eliciting such particulars of the mysterious
transaction as have already been recounted. ”
“Pick you up at 4:00? My parents would like to invite
you to my house for dinner. You will
never be able to draw. There was all the knavery, and more than all the drollery
of a Spanish picaroon in the laughing eyes of the English apprentice; and, with a
little more warmth and sunniness of skin on the side of the latter, the
resemblance between them would have been complete. He pictured himself
visiting the girl in this shabby little home of her aunt’s—she had told him that it
was shabby—and he recalled that delicious little smile with which she would
surely greet him, a smile which seemed to be a matter of the eyes as well as the
lips. Unless—’ Something clicked in his mind and he stared at his friend without
seeing him. ‘What a fate he finds for me. The
necessity of defending herself and assuming a confident and secure tone did
much to dispell the sense of being exposed and indefensible in a huge dingy
world that abounded in sinister possibilities.
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