The agonized mother could scarcely repress a scream at the spectacle that met her gaze. It was Doctor Ralph, formerly the partner of Doctor Stickell in the Avenue, and now with a thriving practice of his own in Wamblesmith. T' other gen'l'man said the letter 'ud explain all. He learnt that his sister was privately married—the name or rank of her husband could not be ascertained—and living in retirement in an obscure dwelling in the Borough, where she had given birth to a son. Remote little Ann Veronica! She would never know the heart of that child again! That child had loved fairy princes with velvet suits and golden locks, and she was in love with a real man named Capes, with little gleams of gold on his cheek and a pleasant voice and firm and shapely hands. The young lady with frizzled hair, whom Brendon had pointed out to her as Miss Ellicot, leaned forward from her hostess’s side. After a little further discourse the old man took his departure. The beautiful city that she had been awed by and even grown to love had been abandoned. The day was so darkly overcast that she had to turn on the small white porcelain lamp that sat upon the makeup crowded vanity. He thought he heard a scraping sound as he turned the handle. After all, it came to him suddenly as a harsh discovery that she might be in a sense regarded as grownup. Opals. Can’t ask the gent to go abroad and condone a bigamy.
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