”
“Tell me about yourself,” said Ann Veronica. She
meditated long and carefully upon her letter to her father before she wrote it, and
gravely and deliberately again before she despatched it. “What have you done?”
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“It is your own fault, Lucia. As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. "
"I hope not," replied Wild. “What was that?” she asked sharply. "
"Graves. If only there had not been this single torturing thought—a mere pin-prick, but
still curiously persistent. "
"I liked that, too," she replied; "but it wasn't that I had in mind. The way it had
happened was stupid, absurd. ”
She stopped. "Ruth?"
Silence for a moment.
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