"Enough!" rejoined Wild; "he shall not return. Ann Veronica found herself walking back down the Avenue that had just been the scene of her first proposal beside her aunt, and speculating for the first time in her life about that lady’s mental attitudes. A smile flickered upon her lips as she glanced towards Brendon, who was very serious indeed. Wood resounded from below. ‘Don’t tell me you’ve found her!’ ‘Ah, Gérard,’ uttered the girl in a gratified tone as Major Alderley walked through into the light. ‘But my poor Jacques is wounded and—’ ‘All taken care of,’ interrupted Hilary. At the period of this history, the main streets of the metropolis were but imperfectly lighted, while the less-frequented avenues were left in total obscurity; but, even at the present time, the maze of courts and alleys into which Wild now plunged, would have perplexed any one, not familiar with their intricacies, to thread them on a dark night. He had pictured her, if indeed she had ever had the courage to do this thing, as sitting alone, convulsed with guilty fear, starting at her own shadow, a slave to constant terror. She barely heard a word that Martin or Brown said, until Martin’s voice chimed.
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