Wood," she cried, as the staff fell from his grasp. ”
Part 9
She was sitting brooding over her fire about ten o’clock that night when a
sealed and registered envelope was brought up to her. ‘Me and the butler didn’t see eye to eye. ’
Madame ventured a glance up at his face, and fluttered her lashes. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. She turned up dead after about eight
weeks and it broke my heart. ‘You knew her well, Miss Mary?’
Mrs Ibstock turned at the window. ’
Roding left the house instantly, not even pausing to nod. For a time Ann Veronica’s attention was diverted by her aunt’s interest in the
salted almonds. ’
‘But I have told you not,’ she protested.
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