‘The fact of it is,’ I said, ‘I’m the new playwright, Thomas More. ‘Gerald Alderley, I don’t know what you deserve. You get one, you get them all. ’ The gentleness in his voice nearly overset her. Somehow to-night—I don’t know. At last, a little way to the northward of Euston Road, the moral cloud seemed to lift, the moral atmosphere to change; clean blinds appeared in the windows, clean doorsteps before the doors, a different appeal in the neatly placed cards bearing the word ————————————— | APARTMENTS ————————————— | in the clear bright windows. His foot touched the rounded edge of the starling, and glanced off, precipitating him into the water. Never had he corrected her with hand or whip, the ring in his voice had always been sufficient to cower her. ’ Taking the chair she had indicated with a careless wave of one stiff-fingered hand, Gerald felt hope burgeoning. There was just time for the girl to raise her arm to chest height and draw it back before Roding seized her. And opposite to him, with a book in his hand,—but it couldn't be a prayer-book,—sat Jonathan Wild, in a parson's cassock and band. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. “This life is killing me! Oh, it is dull, dull, dull!” Suddenly an idea seemed to strike her. She saw, twenty yards down the platform, the shiny hat and broad back and inimitable swagger of Ramage.
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