The vast ironic humour of it: he was starting on his honeymoon!
CHAPTER XIX
Meanwhile the doctor, upon returning to his office, found Ah Cum in the waiting
room. “Good-bye, John,” she said simply. Here, where every element of her surroundings was tawdry and
commonplace, and before this young man of vulgar origin and appearance, it
was striking. He was standing
by, rating her ladyship,—who can scarcely stir from the sofa,—while I was
packing up her jewels in the case, and I observed that she tried to hide a small
casket from him. You are wholly in my power. He opened the door for her with a faint disagreeable smile. After an affectionate parting with Winifred, Thames was conducted by the
carpenter to his sleeping apartment—a comfortable cosy chamber; such a one, in
short, as can only be met with in the country, with its dimity-curtained bed, its
sheets fragrant of lavender, its clean white furniture, and an atmosphere
breathing of freshness. "Confusion!" ejaculated Jonathan: "can he have escaped?
No. Amid this skirmish Jonathan greatly distinguished himself. The boiling under her stern, however, told him nothing. I was to
blame to carry the matter so far. . ToC
Tyburn was now at hand.
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