” “Then perhaps,” she answered, with a new coldness in her tone, “perhaps I really do not care. She hoped that he would at long last remember his young male pride. Gay, I've been in many odd quarters of our city—have visited haunts frequented only by thieves—the Old Mint, the New Mint, the worst part of St. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. It might as well be Melusine herself. He never retires to rest till daybreak—if at all. Somehow or other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of those women with whom he had been brought into contact. She kept her eyes closed. ” “But—” “He left her alone. Ann Veronica had got quite interested in Mr. After that, we'll go our several ways. I met a Hindu a few weeks ago who was a Harvard man.
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