Like a river swollen by many currents, it gathered force from the various avenues that poured their streams into it. ‘It had better not be, by God,’ had barked Captain Hilary Roding. Is Jack what Mrs. " "That's but a short distance from here, sir. " "Do you mock me?" cried Jack, levelling a pistol at him. On examination it proved to be a flat bar of iron, nearly a yard in length, and more than an inch square. No matter how often she came across this phase in love stories, there was never anything explanatory: as if all human beings perfectly understood. Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face, and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind, the word “meretricious. The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. “You might at least,” she murmured, “have invented a more romantic reason. Why were you following Valade?’ She shrugged and turned away, moving as if to seek escape among the bookshelves all about one corner of the room. “I knew you wouldn’t mind.
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