”
“Perhaps,” she said, “I am superstitious. The lines about his mouth gradually
softened. For the
first time it occurred to Ah Cum that the young man might not be quite
conscious of his surroundings, that he might be moving in that comatose state
which is the aftermath of a long debauch. His
analytical bent saved him many times, though he was not sensitive to this. Ousted from his old retreat, the Cross Shovels,
Baptist Kettleby opened another tavern, conducted upon the same plan as the
former, which he denominated the Seven Cities of Refuge. The half-nude brown bodies
of the crew informed Ah Cum that the schooner had come up from the South
Seas. “You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point
already carried; “you shall!”
The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from
unnamable disgraces. She must be
beautiful, but beauty is only the beginning. ‘What a fate he finds for me. "
"Decidedly so," replied Edgeworth Bess; "and I'll take this opportunity, while
Jack's back is turned,—for he's grown so strangely particular,—of easing him of
his snuff-box. ”
“I want a vote,” said Ann Veronica. She could not go to him with a preachment against strong drink; she knew from
experience that such a plan would be wasted effort. He had brought her here to
this place—where her freedom was curtailed even more than at the convent so
that a cavalier was very much needed—and only on Monday came again.
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