’ A reluctant laugh escaped him. To settle things, you know. ’ ‘Gracious heaven, Gerald! If your dear mama could not drag you to the altar, I am hardly likely to succeed. I couldn’t sit down for a week!” “Oh, how terrible for you. The man muttered something inaudible, and gathered up the reins. CHAPTER XV. Ann Veronica had got quite interested in Mr. Heaven knows why! They don’t marry most of us off now until high up in the twenties. “To the young man himself,” he answered, “no! I simply object to his calling here two or three times a week during my absence. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. She dived at once behind the cover of the lamproom and affected serious trouble with her shoe-lace until he was out of the station, and then she followed slowly and with extreme discretion until the bifurcation of the Avenue from the field way insured her escape. I warned her not to say a word, for it would mean the death of everyone in the Palazzo, including you. ” “I don’t deal very much,” said Ann Veronica, “in the Higher Morality, or the Higher Truth, or any of those things. There is something in prayer; not that there may be any noticeable result, any definite answer; but no human being can offer an honest prayer to God without gaining immeasurably in courage, in fortitude, in resignation, and that alone is worth the effort.
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