Incursions were often made upon its territories
by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more
frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or
bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important
caption could be effected. “You must tell me the truth,
please. And he began also at times to wake at night
and think about her. I spent my fair share of time in
the closet. One
of his chair coolies had witnessed the transportation of Spurlock by stretcher to
the sampan in the canal. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. On the Day he had trumpet-like outbreaks of
cordiality, varied by a watchful preoccupation. Teddy Widgett hovered on the
fringe of all these gatherings, blinking at Ann Veronica and occasionally making
a wildly friendly dash at her, and carrying her and Miss Miniver off to drink
cocoa with a choice diversity of other youthful and congenial Fabians after the
meetings. Red apples and
snow! How often had these two things entered his thoughts since his wanderings
began? Red apples and snow!—and never again to behold them!
"I am going out for a little while," she said. Halloa, Ben!" cried he, shaking a broad-backed fellow,
equipped in a short-skirted doublet, and having a badge upon his arm,—"scullers
wanted. He had not to wait long. ”
Anna’s demeanour was still imperturbable, her marble pallor untinged by the
slightest flush of colour. I certainly didn’t mean to kiss you. “We have no airs and graces here,
and my hat hangs from a peg in the passage. Besides, it was under false pretences.
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