“Get me some brandy and my bag. Ascending the stairs, and conducting them along a sombre gallery, in which Trenchard noticed that every door was painted black, and numbered, he stopped at the entrance of a chamber; and, selecting a key from the bunch at his girdle, unlocked it. For a time Ann Veronica’s attention was diverted by her aunt’s interest in the salted almonds. He smothered it down with such a good will that the reaction set his heart to pounding. Nor did he content himself with declaring his guiltlessness of the crime imputed to him, but began in his turn to menace his captor and accuser, loading the latter with the bitterest upbraidings. “I believe that you are right,” he said softly. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now look here! Let me think it all out!” For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for even a foothold in the world. "Come, come, Jack," said Thames, walking up to Sheppard, and taking his hand, "have done with this. She had even played in an opera by Verdi once, but had to dress as a boy to do it. I am out of your life forever, never having been in it.
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