Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. The next moment he was by her side. Maggot tenderly. “It is a very pleasant place,” said Ann Veronica, biting a rhododendron stalk
through, and with that faint shadow of a smile returning to her lips. For the
face under her gaze she could find but one expression—fine. In this spy theory, however, he had no faith whatsoever. Opening the door,
he found it littered with straw, on which he threw himself, and instantly fell
asleep. 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. At least, he would always be able to take care of Ruth. Alexander and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www. The old lady’s face was stiff with anger. That was one of the
mysterious qualities of this child of the lagoon: she had always at instant service
that Oriental mask of impenetrable calm that no Occidental trick could dislodge.
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