"Can you make me other than a
condemned felon? Can you make me not Jack Sheppard?"
"No," replied Blueskin; "and I wouldn't if I could. “I don’t see what he has to do with my coming to London?”
“He—he worships the ground you tread on. When I went I was refused admittance. Then blackness. I must practise what I preach. It was just a shabby, stupid, furtive business that
began between us. “Perhaps for myself I do
not mind, but this man is sure to find out some day, and he will not like having
been deceived. For although I must
confess it reads very much like an application or a testimonial or some such
thing as that, I can assure you I am writing this in fear and trembling with a
sinking heart. ”
“Of course you don’t,” said Miss Miniver, gesticulating triumphantly with her
thin hand and thinner wrist, and patting Ann Veronica’s knee. “It seems to me it comes to earning one’s living in the long run,” said Ann
Veronica, coloring faintly. The two aunts of these
young ladies lived for many years in the dower house upon my estate in
Hampshire. ’
The gentleness in his voice nearly overset her. Apparently he had projected beyond his table some hypnotic thought, for it had
held him all through the dining hour. You see—I didn’t
understand. But to plunge blindly into the unknown!"
"I had to! I had to!"
She had told him only the first part of her story.
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