Don’t look so
frightened. Ann Veronica ignored her friend’s confusion. "Is Thames returned
from London?"
"Not yet," replied the other; "but I expect him every minute. "
Amazed at the boy's assurance, Wood left off boxing his ears for a moment, and,
looking at him steadfastly, said in a grave tone, "Jack, Jack, you'll come to be
hanged!"
"Better be hanged than hen-pecked," retorted the lad with a malicious grin. Lucilla broke across Melusine’s
thoughts. “You really couldn’t ride in it,” he said, deprecatingly. It jars with all my ideas. "I never told anybody," she went on. She did not hear his approach, but continued her occupation without
raising her head. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. But it is not your name.
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