"
"Well, think no more about it," returned Thames. Wood, by whom it was formerly occupied. She looked in the
rear-view mirror. Tell me how are you amusing
yourself?”
Anna laughed. "
"It matters not what I think," replied Wild. Sheppard's conduct, from my own personal knowledge,
has been unexceptionable for the last twelve years. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. It was his
turn to express astonishment. She went to her room and changed the
loose morning gown in which she had lunched for a dark walking dress. One of his converted Kanakas dropped in one day. Anna sent her away. While involved in this crowd, near Temple Bar,
—where the thoroughfare was most dangerous from the masses of ruin that
impeded it,—an individual, whose swarthy features recalled to the carpenter one
of his tormentors of the previous night, collared him, and, with bitter
imprecations accused him of stealing his child. “Why won’t you sleep in my bed tonight, Lucia, where
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it’s warm?” He asked her one night, teasing but
mournful, as she stood in her bedroom doorway in a long
white gown.
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