”
Mr. "So the wheelman told you? I've always spoken it, though I can neither read nor
write it. Don’t you care for Nigel at all?”
Anna was silent for a moment or two. He had
buckled on his hanger, and had two brace of pistols in his belt, as well as others
in this holsters. Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called
Wheeler's Rents; a dirty thoroughfare, part street, and part lane, running from
Mint Street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel,
skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of Saint
George's Fields. She enjoyed preparing the
evening meals, the smells of potatoes roasting in the
oven, the stink of onions in the pan, the crackle of
chicken frying. There were neither texts nor
rubbish on the walls, but only a stirring version of Belshazzar’s feast, a steel
engraving in the early Victorian manner that had some satisfactory blacks. Women are hypocrites to the last—true only to themselves. ’
It took several frustrating moments, working at the protrusions of the carving
down the side of the bookshelves, tugging at leaves, pushing at flowers. Melusine’s heart
ached for him, but she had to force him on. The girl
who had just left the room was as great a mystery to him now as on the
afternoon when he had met her in Piccadilly and taken her to tea. In the corner of the room were two
hockey-sticks and a tennis-racket, and upon the walls Ann Veronica, by means of
autotypes, had indicated her proclivities in art. Not since she had discovered it had Ruth touched or opened the mission Bible;
but to-night (the same upon which the wonderful manuscripts started on their
long and circuitous voyage to America) she was inexplicably drawn to it.
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