" For the life of him, O'Higgins could not think of anything else to say. . Except for one memorable school excursion to Paris, Ann Veronica had never yet been outside England. She was greatly heartened by doing this. Then came the javelin-men, walking four abreast, and lastly, a long line of constables, marching in the same order. To these she added the wine and spirits directed, and when all was arranged looked inquisitively at her master. “She will take her risk,” she answered. She practiced swaddling on a doll, pretending to pat the head of her imaginary infant boy. Presently he felt motion. But the letter, written in his son’s own hand, and addressed to the Mother Abbess of the Convent of the Sisters of Wisdom near Blaye in the district of Santonge, dated a little over five years previously, exercised a powerful effect upon him. " "Why what will she say?" inquired Sheppard. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude.
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