One can learn and understand only by personal experience, by actual contact with the realities of life. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. He had meant to come at his business in a roundabout way, but for that little slip. “I’ll try to stop by. ‘I can take care of myself, bête. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small, whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and her bags. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. “Do not look so uncomfortable, both of you,” she begged. Some of my schemes are already in hand. He had a handsome, jolly-looking face; stood six feet two in his stockings; and measured more than a cloth-yard shaft across the shoulders—athletic proportions derived from his father the dragoon. Then for a time she forgot the Fadden affair altogether.
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