"
"Not if it will hurt her. Take my advice. ‘She wouldn’t tell me. “In Paris your sister appeared to me to be a
charming student of frivolity. Who’s for a rubber of
whist?”
Ennison made so many mistakes that he was glad to cut out early in the evening. Nor was Jack by any means the only stripling in the room. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. There was a lot of that, John, a great deal of
hunger. She was poor. She smiled and started for the stairs without reply. Now, will you
stand aside?"
"I won't," answered Jack, obstinately. He
looked at her, his eyes filled with excited terror and
astonishment at her move. The roof was partially
untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported
by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the
windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases,
the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left
free to the airs of heaven.
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