She had the dowry she needed for the lawyers were working to give her Remenham House. He looked at her, hurt. The houses were older, the shops gloomier, and the thoroughfare narrower, it is true; but the bustle, the crowd, the street-like air was the same. ’ ‘Why must you?’ asked Gerald calmly. She speedily reached her own abode,—a little cottage, standing in the outskirts of the village. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. “Awfully good of you, Teddy. ’ His eyes found the girl again, and he added rancorously, ‘Giving birth to you. Manning, relinquishing his cup without answering her question, “when I hear you talk of earning a living, it’s as if I heard of an archangel going on the Stock Exchange—or Christ selling doves. The first Step towards the Ladder. “I hope nothing is wrong. “I believe you are quite right so far as regards the present, at any rate,” someone remarked, from the depths of an easy chair.
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