"It is your son. “MY DEAR DAUGHTER,” it ran,—“Here, on the verge of the season of forgiveness I hold out a last hand to you in the hope of a reconciliation. Rumor in the Palazzo had it that her new doctor was a powerful archbishop from the south who conducted most of his dealings in secret. Ann Veronica forgot him as soon as she was through the gate, and her face resumed its expression of stern preoccupation. The walls were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid across joint-stools. "But McClintock agrees to take you both—because he's as big a fool as I am. So you are Prudence Remenham. "If this document is correct," continued Wood, "and I am persuaded it is so,— you are as unfortunate as wicked. I didn’t! I didn’t! After all—” For a time her mind ran on daintiness and its defensive restraints as though it was the one desirable thing. Horrors abounded in every passageway as each turn could bring a vision of a poor woman running from her screaming plague-infested son or a bloated corpse of a rich man whose mouth lolled open, showing gaps where someone had pried out a few golden teeth. I must know what new thing has come between us that she should treat me as a lover one day and a monster the next. I have written, called—of what avail is anything—against that look.
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