I was afraid that I might be called upon as a witness. The party resolved itself for Ann Veronica into a game in which she manoeuvred unostentatiously and finally unsuccessfully to avoid talking alone with this gentleman. Once in the room, the door locked, the sense of loneliness had dropped away from her as the mists used to drop away from the mountain in the morning. One don't often get sich a vindfal as the Markis——" "Or such a customer as Mr. " "Poh! poh! say no more about it," rejoined the man hastily. “You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point already carried; “you shall!” The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from unnamable disgraces. \" She said. Something in her voice and manner conveyed an effect of unwonted gravity to him. There followed a silence which endured several minutes; or, rather a tableau. He had a wild impulse to shout. "To be sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his poor father suffered. The agonized mother could scarcely repress a scream at the spectacle that met her gaze.
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