If
hopeless love for her made me a robber, it has also saved me many a crime. Fortescue raised his eyebrows and assumed a light-comedy expression. “I think everything’s right,” said Ann Veronica, with the roaming eye of a
capable but not devoted house-mistress. ‘I can manage now. Hugging them, they crept
stealthily around the house, Major Alderley leading, and wasting—so his captain
acidly commented—a deal of time checking the windows and doors. ”
And while he talked and watched her as he talked, she answered, and behind
her listening watched and thought about him. As he proceeded, other painful reminiscences were aroused. From her stomacher, to which it was attached by a multitude of glittering steel
chains, depended an immense turnip-shaped watch, in a pinchbeck case. In the
second, she was wretchedly poor, and assailed by temptations of which you can
form no idea. Just as the clergyman approached the altar, she perceived a boy steal quickly into
the church, and ensconce himself behind the woollen-draper, who, in order to
carry on his amatory pursuits with greater convenience, and at the same time
display his figure (of which he was not a little vain) to the utmost advantage,
preferred a standing to a sitting posture. Ruth returned to the table.
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