Gin is the poor man's friend,—his sole set-off against the rich man's luxury. But his hand was withheld by Thames. And Ann Veronica walked beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together, rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights” in his company. " She wanted to dance. She opened her mouth and inhaled water. But over against the world Miss Miniver assembled a small but energetic minority, the Children of Light—people she described as “being in the van,” or “altogether in the van,” about whom Ann Veronica’s mind was disposed to be more sceptical. This had well nigh been the case with the carpenter. She could not look at him through an interval that seemed to her a vast gulf of time. “Anna,” she moaned, “I am a jealous, ungrateful woman. It would have been very well if she had been some common creature who might have been bought off. If he wished, he could even take this inheritance from her.
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