He looked like
an animated skeleton that someone had hung a smelly
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brown beard upon. ”
“You are at least aware,” he said, “that you have on several recent occasions
acted in direct opposition to my wishes. To have sprung this upon them
to-night would have been worth a thousand pounds. ”
CONTENTS
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came
down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have
things out with her father that very evening. “Lucy! Where is my daughter? Where have you. “But why now?
Don’t boys know that I am involved with John right
now?”
“That’s not the way it works, Lucy. Though a
few months younger than his companion Jack Sheppard, he was half a head
taller, and much more robustly formed. I do not desire to
extenuate my guilt—far less to defend it; but I would show you, and such as you
—who, happily, are exempted from trials like mine—how much misery has to do
with crime. I, too, want to understand—to walk with my head in the light. 1. Fortescue in the drawing-room, and
actually shake hands with him in an entirely hopeless manner and hope
everything would turn out for the best.
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