” “Yes,” said Ann Veronica, “I agree to that. ” Chapter XXV THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room with a deferential little gesture. This girl whom he had met by chance and befriended had done both. ” Surprisingly she did show up to meet him that night, arriving at exactly 1:16 a. After fifteen years, to find that peculiarly Occidental attribute—college loyalty—still alive in his heart! A Western idea that had survived; an idea that was merely the flower of youthful enthusiasm! With his hands still in his sleeves, his chin down in speculation over this phenomenon, he continued his patrol. Gianfrancesco had told her about it, how he had played in it as a child with his brothers. ” “Is my sister’s Christian name, then, of so much importance to you?” she asked with a faint smile. Will you not, brother?" "Promise," said a deep voice in Trenchard's ear. ‘I have told you that I am entirely English. ” “Kitty is wonderful,” said another. He resolved to judge for himself. Lord Charvill’s sense of justice would not, however, allow him to repudiate his granddaughter, if indeed this female proved to be the infant lost to the family so many years ago. I know I am undeserving of your bounty; but if I were to tell you what hardships I have undergone—to what frightful extremities I have been reduced—and to what infamy I have submitted, to earn a scanty subsistence for this child's sake, —if you could feel what it is to stand alone in the world as I do, bereft of all who have ever loved me, and shunned by all who have ever known me, except the worthless and the wretched,—if you knew (and Heaven grant you may be spared the knowledge!) how much affliction sharpens love, and how much more dear to me my child has become for every sacrifice I have made for him,—if you were told all this, you would, I am sure, pity rather than reproach me, because I cannot at once consent to a separation, which I feel would break my heart.
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