He was halfway across the ballroom, where the dancing had ceased for the
musicians to take a well-earned rest, when Roding pounced on him. She
was in excellent spirits, and it was not until she had taken off her hat, and was
considering the question of dinner or no dinner, that she remembered that
another day had passed, and she was not a whit nearer being able to pay her tomorrow’s bill. But, what is it! What did you promise?"
"To offer you my heart, my hand, my life," replied Kneebone, falling at her feet. To be
sure, he was attentive, respectful; but in his conduct there was none of that
shameless camaraderie of a man who loved his woman and didn't care a hang if
all the world knew it. Didn’t you feel rather
EVENTFUL—in the train—coming up to Waterloo?”
Part 6
Before Christmas Ann Veronica had gone to Ramage again and accepted this
offer she had at first declined. ” He left her where she was, crying in
the doorway. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by
various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape
with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of
widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a
linsey-woolsey shawl.
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