The honey on his tongue turned to ashes. ‘Sindlesham? But Gerald has gone out of town to visit that very person. She was fatigued physically and mentally, and neither mind nor body could rest. “A glass slipped from the table,” he explained. But anything is better than this. They talked across their meal in an easy and friendly manner about Ann Veronica’s affairs. At any cost! Her brothers had it practically—at least they had it far more than it seemed likely she would unless she exerted herself with quite exceptional vigor. ‘What do you do here?’ demanded the young lady, moving to meet him. It was the very spot from which his poor mother had gazed after her vain attempt to rescue him at the Mint; but, though he was ignorant of this, her image was alone present to him. The rejection caught him like a slap in the face. His features were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days.
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