” CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH THE SAPPHIRE RING Part 1 For a time that ring set with sapphires seemed to be, after all, the satisfactory solution of Ann Veronica’s difficulties. ” Anna hesitated, and then held out the letter. “With your permission,” he said to Anna, “I shall arrange a bed for him where he is. I waited for them to get right out of the grounds. On the groundfloor the shutters were closed, or, to speak more correctly, altogether nailed up, and presented a very singular appearance, being patched all over with the soles of old shoes, rusty hobnails, and bits of iron hoops, the ingenious device of the former occupant of the apartment, Paul Groves, the cobbler, to whom we have before alluded. He had just arrived from Manchester, whence he had been summoned by that treacherous thief-taker. That would be myself, or if she lived, Mary’s daughter. Neither he nor Gerald chose to attire themselves in full military rig on fashionable occasions such as this. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. She fell into a deep delirium, whispering hoarsely to her dead mother, cursing God in Heaven, cursing her doctor, cursing herself as apparitions of devils and demons pulled at her with yellow ochre hands. "Good work.
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