Is there any truth, do you suppose, in this rumoured marriage?”
“I know nothing,” Courtlaw answered hurriedly. "I call this ere crib the Little-Ease,
arter the runaway prentices' cells in Guildhall. Ladders, paviour's rams, sledge-hammers, and
other destructive implements were procured, and, in all probability, their purpose
would have been effected, but for the opportune arrival of a detachment of the
guards, who dispersed them, not without some loss of life. He waited for hours after
dusk but she never arrived. I swore to hang you two years ago, but I deferred my purpose. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. “Last time I saw you,” he reminded her, “you spoke, did you not, of obtaining
some employment in London. "Let us fly from
this frightful place. ”
Part 7
It was rather less than a week after that walk that Capes came and sat down
beside Ann Veronica for their customary talk in the lunch hour. I'll be with you in a jiffy. ‘He told me everything, if you mean Gerald. I love him!"
She was weak and dizzy: from horror as much as from physical exertion. The only departure which he made from the
fashion of the period, was in respect to the peruke—an article he could never be
induced to wear.
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