That
was something in his favour. Every gibbet at Tyburn and Hounslow appeared to have been
plundered of its charnel spoil to enrich the adjoining cabinet, so well was it
stored with skulls and bones, all purporting to be the relics of highwaymen
famous in their day. Kneebone's house, the young man hastened to a hotel in the
neighbourhood of Covent Garden, where, having procured a horse, he shaped his
course towards the west end of the town. ‘Maybe not,’ Gerald conceded, ‘but I’m damned if I herald my approach with
a lot of unnecessary blundering about in the dark. He often
wanted only to drive with her in the car, both of them
staring at the scenery in silence for hours. ”
“What?”
“That’s the devil of it!”
“Devil of what?. She pushed. ”
Chapter XIX
“THIS IS NOT THE END”
“I said some afternoon,” she remarked, throwing open her warm coat, and taking
off her gloves, “but I certainly did not mean to-day. “Anna,” she cried, “you must believe me. ” He
made quite a long pause, and went on, with a sigh: “You have a voting paper
given you—”
They emerged into the publicity of the lawn. Sometimes her
straying mind would become astonishingly active—embroidering bright and
decorative things that she could say to Capes; sometimes it passed into a state of
passive acquiescence, into a radiant, formless, golden joy. "
Then he looked at Ruth. She produced
from the depths of her pride the ugly investigatory note of the modern district
visitor. ’ Disappointment
flooded her.
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