It happened that at the extremest point of Ann Veronica’s social circle from the Widgetts was the family of the Morningside Park horsedealer, a company of extremely dressy and hilarious young women, with one equestrian brother addicted to fancy waistcoats, cigars, and facial spots. She was pleased and a little flattered by his interest and sympathy. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. "Only the dog," replied the rough tones of a man. “They all catch on,” she said. “I can’t keep away from you. . Twice she smiled, but not unkindly. I need only just jump up and throw myself upon you. Miraculously, her schoolmates were so upswept in their own summer planning that they had no time to interrogate her. “These are her rooms,” she said. At the same time she was wildly exultant at the resolution she had taken, the end she had made to her blunder. The veins in his throat and forehead swelled and blackened; his eyes protruded from their sockets, and stared wildly; a thick damp gathered on his brow: and blood gushed from his mouth, nostrils, and ears. Yet she took with her an uneasy consciousness that in this affair might lie the germs of future trouble. The Master of the Mint was accompanied by another gentleman almost as portly as himself, and quite as deliberate in his movements.
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