All his dreams shattered in an instant. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. The lamp was spreading soot over everything and the reek of kerosene was stronger than usual. . One or two of the tables were occupied by groups of fat frowzy women in flat caps, with rings on their thumbs, and baskets by their sides; and no one who had listened for a single moment to their coarse language and violent abuse of each other, would require to be told they were fish-wives from Billingsgate. Bird,—who was rushing up stairs, alarmed by Mr. Or I should say—’ ‘Eugenia,’ cut in Gerald grimly. She was sore with the perplexities of her preposterous position. She thought her niece very hard and very self-possessed and self-confident. From this perturbed state he was roused by thoughts of his mother, and fancying he heard her gentle voice urging him on to fresh exertion, he started up. It was a unique experience for her to wash him. The sound of her flying feet brought Gerald leaping for the door. Then her white teeth gleamed, and her excuse for remaining any longer before that little marble table was gone. —Your father, Sir Montacute Trenchard, who had been a loyal subject of King James the Second, and borne arms in his service, on the abdication of that monarch, turned his back upon the Stuarts, and would never afterwards recognise their claims to the crown.
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