From where had he come, and why? An author! To her he would be no less interesting because he was unsuccessful. "Couldn't you speak to him?" "What?—and be insulted for my trouble? No, thank you!" "That is it. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. She had arranged for a supper of tea, a boiled egg, and some tinned peaches. She read on and on, now thrilled by the swiftly moving drama, now enraptured by the tender passages of love. “He is very kind, Anna, really, and not half such a prig as he seems. My father's chief fear, I must tell you, is from the baneful influence of Jonathan Wild. Gianfrancesco had been talked into the arrangement only because the drivers that had handled the job for generations were sick or dead. Annabel seated herself in an easy chair and determined to wait for her sister’s return. “I want to know who you are. I might add that in any case I should not touch Sir John’s. Until this instant, he discovered, he had thought of Melusine’s plan only in a nebulous fashion, a naïve girl’s dream. And like that gospel it meant something, something different from its phrases, something elusive, and yet something that in spite of the superficial incoherence of its phrasing, was largely essentially true.
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