“I should kill you. Annabel had spoken calmly enough and steadily, but his brain refused at first to accept the full meaning of her words. Listening on the dimlit landing, he saw Roding’s face muscles tighten. “Shopman. Such was the effect produced upon the passengers by his good looks and manly deportment, that few—especially of the gentler and more susceptible sex—failed to turn round and bestow a second glance upon the handsome stranger. She became more and more alive, not so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of alteration. After passing Tottenham Court Road, very few houses were to be seen on the right hand, opposite Wardour Street it was open country. All they left it was the moon and stars. But here was a girl—she must be a girl, since she was his daughter and pat-able—imitating the woman quite remarkably and cleverly. I’m like a creature just wakened up. She had been obliged to spend the night in that fateful bedchamber, the faithful Kimble—who had foraged at a nearby inn, bringing back a large pie and a jug of porter for his mistress—guarding the door outside. ‘It had better not be, by God,’ had barked Captain Hilary Roding. She listened, her suspicions confirmed.
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