They entered a hansom and turned on to
the Embankment. To be sure," he added, lowering his tone, "they wos little 'uns, and
one on 'em was smothered—ough! ough!—how this cough chokes me!"
Sheppard, meanwhile, whose hands were at liberty, managed to possess himself,
unperceived, of the spike of a halbert, which was lying, apart from the pole,
upon a bench near him. It was a second reminder that against her claim to go free and untrammelled
there was a case to be made, that after all it was true that a girl does not go alone
in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil
walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating than dangers, lurk. And he unsheathed his sword. Eyebrows knitting, she looked towards the ground a
few feet away from him, guiltily. What a buzz of admiration
ran round the court as he appeared! And, how handsome and composed he
looked! Everybody wondered that such a stripling could commit such desperate
robberies. The ribald demons that infested the back of Ann Veronica’s mind urged
various facetious interrogations upon her, as, for example, where the witness had
acquired his prose style. “Where have you been!
If Sheila finds out, she’ll kill you!”
She summoned a few tears to elicit sympathy from him. She must get to the vestry. This young man, whose features, though rather
plain and coarse, bore the strongest impress of genius, and who had a dark gray,
penetrating eye, so quick in its glances that it seemed to survey twenty objects at
once, and yet only to fasten upon one, bore the honoured name of William
Hogarth. But when he looked again, there she was!
"I don't understand," he said, finally. It
was her distinctive test of an emotional state, its interference with a kindly
normal digestion.
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