Poor soul! she nearly died when she heard he had robbed his master; and it might have been well if she had done so, for she never afterwards recovered her reason. “Why should it matter?” he said. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. As soon as he was gone, Jonathan went up stairs to the audience-chamber; and, sitting down, appeared for some time buried in reflection. “It was perhaps my fault. Probably he will come around to-morrow and begin all over again. You are a great deal more like what I was a few months ago than I am now. In a few minutes, an appalling change was perceptible. If only you could see the people who have been to call on me! Sir John has the most absurd ideas, too. ” “That’s rather the theory now,” said Ann Veronica. " "Help me, Jack!" shouted Thames, "or I shan't be able to keep the villain down. He dressed rather after the fashion of the West End than the City, and affected a cultured urbanity that somehow disconcerted and always annoyed Ann Veronica’s father extremely. Indeed, almost insensibly Ann Veronica became habituated to the peculiar appearance and the peculiar manners of the people “in the van.
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