Romance! The romance of passing faces, of wires that carried voices and words to the far ends of the world, of tremendous mechanisms that propelled ships and trains! And, oh the beautiful books! She swiftly knelt upon the floor and once more gathered the books to her heart. The picture in her mind altered and she saw again the way Gerald had looked with consternation upon the bruises he had inflicted on her wrist. “It’s best,” he said, “to make it a good round sum. He had not thought to find a lady so ready of humour and willing to give him a hearing. Hell's curses! that after all my precautions I should be thus entrapped. To write under a pseudonym!—to be forced to disown his children! He could not write under his own name, enjoy the fruits of fame should these tales prove successful. "A hundred guineas if you hang Jack Sheppard. I am an independent sort of person,” she continued, “and I am engaged in an attempt to earn my own living. It depresses one, you know.
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