”
“Because your nerves were exposed, that was no excuse for my touching
them. ”
Anna hesitated no longer. Miss Stanley, it was manifest, had given him Ann Veronica’s address. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. And through it all, like a golden thread on a piece of tapestry, weaving in and out
of the patterns, the unspoken longing for love. But, after all, what does that matter? He is very much taken with me. ‘Suppose you don’t know what sort of proof she was after?’ he asked. "
"Arm yourself with that ruffian's weapons," replied Jack, "and let us search for
her. "
"Come, Sir!" thundered the latter, "no trifling! Perhaps," he added, opening a
warrant, "you'll obey this mandate?"
"A warrant!" ejaculated Kneebone, starting to his feet. Take it, I tell you. "
He departed, musing.
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