"Off with you to Newgate!" cried Jack, "and don't let him out till you get inside the Lodge. He proposed, he wanted to possess her! He loved her. Springing to his feet in an ecstasy of terror, he stumbled, and had well nigh realized his worst apprehensions. She had been fighting down this thought for days: that Hoddy did not care, that he did not love her, that he had mistaken a vagary of the mind for a substance, and now regretted what he had done— married a girl who was not his equal in anything. Silence! Then Anna clutched her companion’s arm. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs, carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. “If I thought for a moment that there was any chance of a relapse, I should stop here and tell him the truth even now. Annabel lounged in her chair with a sort of insolent abandon in her pose, and wide-open eyes which never flinched or drooped. There is strength in you— misguided.
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