‘But how did she meet such a person in a convent?’ ‘He was wounded and came there for sanctuary,’ Gerald explained, adding almost through his teeth. He was so depressed and disheartened that he did not then believe he would ever write again. She dropped beside the chair, sat cross-legged, and laughed at the futile jade-coloured wall. "Hold hard," cried he, addressing the waterman; "I'll give the gentleman a lift. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit, at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care, with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. Suddenly he burst into wild laughter; but equally as suddenly something strangled the sound in his throat. They used the rope—not that a rope was at all necessary, but because Ann Veronica’s exalted state of mind made the fact of the rope agreeably symbolical; and, anyhow, it did insure a joint death in the event of some remotely possibly mischance. Excuse me an instant while I dismiss this person. Die game.
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