CHAPTER XIV Ruth lost the point entirely. Aunt and niece regarded each other silently. Incursions were often made upon its territories by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important caption could be effected. " "Unconsciously, perhaps," replied Thames. "You know not what you do. And from that they came back by way of the Kreutzer Sonata and Resurrection to Tolstoy again. The party resolved itself for Ann Veronica into a game in which she manoeuvred unostentatiously and finally unsuccessfully to avoid talking alone with this gentleman. "But never mind who, or what I am. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. He did not move. "Old Morgan the trader," she explained, "used to save me Tit-Bits. He regarded that perennial miracle of pinning with wrathful eyes. ’ The full story—or as much as Gerald knew—of Valade’s machinations shocked the old lady so much that she was obliged to recruit her strength with a refill from the Madeira decanter.
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