ToC About an hour after the occurrences at Newgate, the door of the small backparlour already described at Dollis Hill was opened by Winifred, who, gliding noiselessly across the room, approached a couch, on which was extended a sleeping female, and, gazing anxiously at her pale careworn countenance, murmured,—"Heaven be praised! she still slumbers—slumbers peacefully. ‘Who’s this, then? Not soldiers again. At this juncture, the sound of oars reached his ears, and he perceived Mr. I wonder if some of them did—and it didn’t get reported. Of course she had taken the boy as her lover, acting as his muse. No matter. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. The psychic vibration of him thickened the air of the room as if he were already inside. There was absolute quiet. Ho-hum! CHAPTER IX The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets without giving any return?” “I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. White,” she remarked. He had reacted by laughing at her, informing her coolly that she was naïve in many things. That’s how it takes me. “What do you think of that farce?” he exclaimed bitterly.
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