’ The girl bit her lip and backed a little, while her husband shifted to stand at her side. The veins in his throat and forehead swelled and blackened; his eyes protruded from their sockets, and stared wildly; a thick damp gathered on his brow: and blood gushed from his mouth, nostrils, and ears. Sheppard looked fixedly at him, as if she would penetrate the gloomy depth of his soul. But go thither at once, I beseech you, before he has time to remove them. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. You have never seen the child within your arms perishing from hunger, and no relief to be obtained. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’ He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke. Her anger parlayed with her confusion, as she realized that the new marriage was about as optional as the first one and her hunger was growing inside her like a weed. And, turning to his daughter, he gave the necessary directions in a low tone. She made herself a private declaration of liberty. “You certainly got him in the bag. "How!" exclaimed Sheppard. ’ ‘Entirely English,’ said Gerald as one making a discovery. The houses were older, the shops gloomier, and the thoroughfare narrower, it is true; but the bustle, the crowd, the street-like air was the same. If only Gerald would come.
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