(Fifteen pounds! And she wanted forty!)
Part 4
It was, perhaps, the natural consequence of a long and tiring and exciting day
that Ann Veronica should pass a broken and distressful night, a night in which
the noble and self-subduing resolutions of Canongate displayed themselves for
the first time in an atmosphere of almost lurid dismay. But she had loved the man. She put her head out of the window. "As you please, Sir Rowland," returned Jonathan, with affected indifference;
"but I'm not going to hunt the deer for another to eat the ven'son, depend on 't. She did not question or analyze the craving; she took the plunge
joyously. Water I need. Nothing but the
publicity of the place and the recollection of that terrible constituency kept him
from attempting some perfectly respectful but unmistakable evidence of his
sympathy. "It's more than I am," muttered Thames. Probably his first
serious bout with John Barleycorn. The
gentleman appealed to shook his head in reply, coughed as only a Dutchman can
cough, and raising his hand from the bowl of his pipe, went through precisely the
same mysterious ceremonial as the Master. He ventured to the great
gates, and by inserting his gimblets into the wood at intervals, so as to form
points upon which he could rest his foot, he contrived, to ascend them; and when
at the top, having fastened a portion of his dress to the spikes, he managed, not
without considerable risk, to draw up his female companion. "Shpeak up, vill you?" cried Abraham, rapping his knuckles against the hatch. All the best novels have been
written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady novelist still! There’s
only one way to get on for a woman, and that is to please men. It’s all very handsome starting out on your own, but it’s
too damned hard.
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