” “You won’t!” said Ann Veronica; with the clearest note of determination. Skirting the noble gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,) the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype, in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry, especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place, by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. But ere the words could find utterance, her maternal tenderness overcame her indignation; and, sinking upon her knees, she extended her arms over her child. . She came to spend hours with the bastard children that the women brought, dressing and feeding the tiny ones, inventing games for the older ones. “But it’s a long business. Ann Veronica stared at his foolish, propitiatory smile, his hungry gaze, through one moment of amazement, then stepped aside and went on her way with a quickened step. He pulled on her shoulder, bringing her mouth to his in a kiss. One’s got to be a better man than one’s father, or what is the good of successive generations? Life is rebellion, or nothing. But this wild scheme was speedily abandoned; and, nerved by despair, the carpenter resolved to hazard an attempt, from the execution, almost from the contemplation, of which he had hitherto shrunk. There would be no way of keeping her police questioning a secret from the entire neighborhood. “I suppose I shall have to write an answer. ’ ‘All the way to England?’ She opened wide eyes.
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