It may be treacherous, it may lay up a store of future woe; but it insures present happiness, and that is sufficient. Ann Veronica watched her face, vaguely sympathizing with her, vaguely disliking her physical insufficiency and her convulsive movements, and the fine eyebrows were knit with a faint perplexity. “That is very nice of you,” she said. Pausing at each door on the landing, Jack placed his ear to the keyhole, and listened intently. Such was the condition of his mind that the danger exhilarated rather than depressed him. Seen down the length of the laboratory, Manning looked a very handsome and shapely gentleman indeed, and, at the sight of his eager advance to his fiancee, Miss Klegg replaced one long-cherished romance about Ann Veronica by one more normal and simple. Lucy felt herself go very red in the cheeks and lowered her hand rather slowly. This person, whose age might be about forty, was attired in a brown double-breasted frieze coat, with very wide skirts, and a very narrow collar; a light drugget waistcoat, with pockets reaching to the knees; black plush breeches; grey worsted hose; and shoes with round toes, wooden heels, and high quarters, fastened by small silver buckles. Upon this grateful animal she lavished that affection which was subtly repelled by its lawful object. Then she uttered a strangled, ‘Espéce de bête!’ and burst into tears.
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