"We're merely about to
discharge our duty by apprehending a rebel. Restlessness, then, was the
trouble, simple restlessness: home bored her. To tell you the
truth, he spoke to me very seriously upon the subject. He
brought his mother to call, and as you know the Countess goes scarcely
anywhere. It consisted of a full-dress coat of
brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise
richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was
termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample
as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. ‘Oh, are there? You are not quite alone
in these adventures of yours, I take it. Part 3
Ann Veronica’s father was a solicitor with a good deal of company business: a
lean, trustworthy, worried-looking, neuralgic, clean-shaven man of fifty-three,
with a hard mouth, a sharp nose, iron-gray hair, gray eyes, gold-framed glasses,
and a small, circular baldness at the crown of his head. Now, it
won't do a bit of good to warn Spurlock. I’ll need you to go back to the barracks and fetch more
men up to town. So now I will say nothing
more to you, and you will please to say nothing more to me, for I do not reply. So she took up Stevenson and began to read aloud. That's the only fault I know of. He's safe enough now. A wrathful God was
watching him. ”
Even in the glamour of Miss Brett’s assurance it seemed to Ann Veronica that
this was, after all, no more than the gospel of Miss Miniver with a new set of
resonances.
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