Ann Veronica, after a last survey of the dinner appointments, followed him, rustling, came to his side by the high brass fender, and touched two or three ornaments on the mantel above the cheerful fireplace. CHAPTER XVIII The doctor reached for the key and studied it sombrely. “Oh, I can’t thank you. "I sha'n't offer any of these to you two," he said; "but I know you won't mind me having an imitation king's peg. ’ Then he bowed, raising his hat in salute and, crossing to the coach, spoke briefly to its driver and leapt into it without looking back. The carpet was a quiet drugget and not excessively worn, and the bed in the corner was covered by a white quilt. ’ Authority had won again, Gerald thought with satisfaction. Miss Mary being his only child ’an all, he were in a right pelter. The wedding day came shortly after she turned fourteen. She began by being interested in his demonstrations and his biological theory, then she was attracted by his character, and then, in a manner, she fell in love with his mind. The aspect of the place, so far as he could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later. " Her island! How well he knew it, thought Spurlock, for all he lacked the name and whereabouts! Suddenly a new thought arose and buffeted him. God, Lucy, that’s the stuff people wear to Phys. ” “He was probably right,” she declared. " So saying, he pushed aside the table, and the janizary stooping down, undrew a bolt and opened a trap-door.
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