Consternation gripped him. “Can I bring you anything, sir—a whisky and soda, or a liqueur? You’ll excuse me, sir, but you haven’t touched your coffee. I am going to take you entirely at your word. Still, the respite was sufficient for Spurlock to look about for some weapon. He had not had time to aim the pistol. The command was sullenly obeyed, for the fellow did not appear to relish the rating. In consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the metropolis. Her fingers were bursting through her gloves, as if to get at once into touch with Ann Veronica. I had not the time to formulate the decoctions that would have saved him— they take weeks to create and must come from your own blood! You were perilously close to death, and had I not watched you constantly for the week you were unconscious they would have buried you alive! Gianfrancesco was ready to give up after two days, 172 ready to throw you in the plague cart! Of course he had no use for you after bearing witness to the loss of your womanly organs. ‘Ah, there is the little menace itself,’ he drawled, recovering some of his own sangfroid. “The Miss Pellissier who was at White’s with us. Stanley used his authority, and commanded Ann Veronica to come home, to which, of course, she said she wouldn’t; and then he warned her not to defy him, warned her very solemnly, and then commanded her again. ’ ‘Nothing of the sort,’ Gerald said calmly, sipping at his burgundy. She brought the cups of cocoa back to the bedroom. Down there, whisky raises the very devil with white men.
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