Her mother had prepared her for everything. She had never been there before at that hour, in that light, and it seemed to her as if she came to it all for the first time. The lamp was spreading soot over everything and the reek of kerosene was stronger than usual. ‘What in God’s name do you think you’re playing at?’ ‘Let me alone, man,’ Gerald muttered under his breath. " "Ah! Did he tell you anything about himself?" "Aside from that, no. It is for that reason that this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell. "I suspect our friend has thought better of it, and won't come," he remarked. Diable. But it’s only now I’m able to do it. "Judging from what you tell me, I've no doubt he's the illegitimate offspring of some handsome, but lowborn profligate; in which case, he'll neither have name, nor wealth for his inheritance. Gravely he placed them in his aunt's hand. I'm a poor nurse. Boys, at the time of which we write, were attired like men of their own day, or certain charity-children of ours; and the stripling in question was dressed in black plush breeches, and a gray drugget waistcoat, with immoderately long pockets, both of which were evidently the cast-off clothes of some one considerably his senior. As she talked, the drift and significance of what she was saying shaped itself slowly to Ann Veronica’s apprehension.
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