He had pictured her, if indeed she had ever had the courage to do this thing, as sitting alone, convulsed with guilty fear, starting at her own shadow, a slave to constant terror. He had often read about it, and once he had incorporated it in a story, that invisible force which sent men to prison and to the gallows, when a tongue controlled would have meant liberty indefinite. He knew that tragedy was as blind as justice, that it struck the child and the grown-up impartially. Beneath the serene unconcern of Ann Veronica’s face was a boiling tumult. ’ ‘Oh, a ruin,’ exclaimed Mrs Sindlesham, throwing up a hand. ‘Something for you, Lucy?’ he asked, interrupting a heated argument that had obviously been in progress for some little time before their arrival. In addition to his customary arms, Jonathan carried a bludgeon with a large heavy knob, suspended from his wrist by a loop; a favourite weapon, which he always took with him on dangerous expeditions, and which, if any information had been requisite, would have told Sheppard that the present was one of them. "My lips would belie my heart were I to refuse you. They may love us, but they love us as the slave loves his captor, not as equals.
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