” “It astonishes me that I don’t,” said Manning, in a tone of intense selfenjoyment. He dressed rather after the fashion of the West End than the City, and affected a cultured urbanity that somehow disconcerted and always annoyed Ann Veronica’s father extremely. None presented themselves to save him from that return. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. Sampans with fish and fruit and vegetables swarmed about, while overhead gulls wheeled and swooped and circled. This was unscrupulous, he admitted, because he had no intention of following through on the seductive promise in his conduct. Teddy handed her into the second-class compartment her season-ticket warranted, and declared she was “simply splendid. Just as Jack got half way down the stairs, and Wild and the Jew reached the upper landing, the street-door was opened by Langley and Ireton, the latter of whom carried a lantern. The wards on the right were occupied by male patients, on the left by the female. Charvill’s command of French was enough to tell him that, for its entire content was devoted to commending Nicholas Charvill’s fourteen year old daughter into the care of the Abbess. ‘Tell me about the convent? Were you happy there? They were kind to you, the nuns?’ ‘Oh, but yes. I mean that it doesn’t interest you in itself. It might have been the moon, or the phosphorescence of the broken water, or it might have been his abysmal loneliness; but suddenly he caught her face in his hands and kissed her on the mouth. Sheppard, returning his embrace with all a parent's tenderness.
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