“We are clerks in the same bank. And pouring the contents of a small powderflask into a bumper of brandy, he tendered him the mixture. The man who staggers,
whose face is flushed, whose attitude is either noisily friendly or truculent, has
some chance; liquor bends him eventually. And even she was forced to admit to herself that this last resource of hers was a
slender reed on which to lean. A skeleton was propped against the mantelpiece. "
"I feel I have, dear Winny!" replied Thames, abashed at his own rudeness; "my
conduct is inexcusable. ”
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
THE SAPPHIRE RING
Part 1
For a time that ring set with sapphires seemed to be, after all, the satisfactory
solution of Ann Veronica’s difficulties. Kneebone, a woollen-draper in Wych Street, with whose pockets, it appears,
Jack, when a lad, made a little too free.
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