At Christmas he gave her a set of a small
edition of Meredith’s novels, very prettily bound in flexible leather, being guided
in the choice of an author, as he intimated, rather by her preferences than his
own. "I did not come hither to consult you as to the state of my health, Sir," he
observed, displeased by Jonathan's allusion to the alteration in his appearance. She had also discovered the names of Grimm and Andersen;
but at that time she had not been able to visualize "the pale slender things with
gossamer wings"—fairies. Well-born, welleducated; those are the lads that pay in full. She passed people in
the streets and regarded them with a quickening apprehension, once or twice
came girls dressed in slatternly finery, going toward Regent Street from out these
places. "
"You were so," replied Mrs Sheppard; "and for that wicked deed you will one
day be brought to the gallows yourself. It might be that the boy had taken one drink too many, or
someone had given him knock-out drops. So long as they're about, I'll always be rewriting them
and wasting my time.
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