Prepared as he was for a dreadful shock, and with his nerves strung to endure it, Jack absolutely recoiled before the appalling object that met his gaze. “I remember when you walked me home. And I heard ‘Alcide’ sing, and that little dance she did. I can never be grateful enough. One of her duties, after she had been taught to read, had been to read aloud after breakfast and before going to bed. She prevaricated. Nothing, in short, was too extravagant to be related of it; and Jonathan, who delighted in investing himself and his residence with mystery, encouraged, and perhaps originated, these marvellous tales. Terence, meanwhile, who had followed him, did not remain silent, but recapitulated his story, for the benefit of Mrs. . “Go down and rescue the rags of my reputation,” she said, smiling. And Ann Veronica walked beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together, rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights” in his company. Day after day she pounded him with curses, saying that her mother looked down on him from Heaven and sent a curse, to which he laughed. The lady murmured briefly to her husband, and then tucked her hand into Alderley’s arm.
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