She is my only family. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. Sheppard, horror-stricken. Mobs were gathered together on the slightest
possible pretext; and these tumultuous assemblages, while committing the most
outrageous excesses, loudly proclaimed their hatred to the house of Hanover, and
their determination to cut off the Protestant succession. The man who staggers,
whose face is flushed, whose attitude is either noisily friendly or truculent, has
some chance; liquor bends him eventually. She will tell you all the story while I am gone. Out of sight of that tell-tale window, the two officers darted across the
grounds, speedily gaining the lee of the mansion walls. You are not going to that infidel Russell’s classes. He began to tell me something—and
stopped. A dog appeared unexpectedly upon the threshold.
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