Sheppard, with a frenzied laugh. “It was fine and brave of you. ’
‘Where then is your uniform?’
‘I don’t wear it to balls. A deadlock. She was
always the last person to exit after the crowds had
stampeded, trailing slowly behind them like dust. It was the
expression of Miss Klegg’s face that put the idea into Ann Veronica’s head of
showing Manning at the College one day, an idea which she didn’t for some
reason or other carry out for a fortnight. Perhaps you will explain the state of panic into which I seem to have
thrown you. “Don’t they look like a pair of young lovers sleeping
off a tryst?” He observed. But there was only Gosse, still struggling with the picture, looking dazedly
towards Melusine and the lad he had shot, then away towards the sounds of
pursuit, and back again. Ann Veronica looked bright and a little elated, and she disregarded her father’s
invitation to be seated. . His hand fell lightly to her chest where her heart was
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beating, almost tenderly. His gangling body was clothed in rusty twill trousers and a long black
seersucker coat, buttoned to the throat, around which ran a collar which would
have marked him the world over as a man of the Word. My father's chief
fear, I must tell you, is from the baneful influence of Jonathan Wild. She wondered why he was so
distinctive, so unlike other men, and it never occurred to her for some time that
this might be because she was falling in love with him.
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