She turned back to Gerald, holding out her hand. “You are mine, Annabel, and nothing shall
ever make me give you up. just furtive meetings. His
glance swept up again and found her staring at him with much of her usual
defiance, if a touch less of her customary assurance. “Why don’t they wait?” he added. Jonathan Wild, at this time, was on the high-road to the greatness which he
subsequently, and not long afterwards, obtained. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. Its walled heaved with black
mildew and sea-salt. ”
He then slipped a diamond ring on her finger. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. Capes came back into her mind. In this hour its
colossal selfishness never occurred to him. My
engagement at the ‘Garrick’ terminates Saturday week, and then I am free.
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