She would look up, shake her head, and then go back to her reading or crewelwork. Don’t touch the handle, Annabel! Curse the thing, you’ve jammed it now. Her hair, once red, faded to a thin gray that she kept cut into a practical short bob. The Wastrel—as we call him—cannot play when he's sober; hands too shaky. ‘Would that your mistress were as trusting. Ye gods! what a wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. My vengeance is completely gratified. The two lovers sat together, and their sole discourse turned upon Jack and his ill-fated mother. ‘In that case, he is probably already dead, and you have nothing to worry about. It is for that reason that this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell.
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