He had not been successful as the world counted success; the fat bank-account, the filled waiting room of which he had once dreamed, had never materialized except in the smoke of his evening pipe. “They have all been trying to turn my head. “It is no good playing a game. He would condemn her to the vengeance of the mob all for refusing to marry him. And yet, on the very site of the sordid tenements and squalid courts we have mentioned, where the felon openly made his dwelling, and the fraudulent debtor laughed the object of his knavery to scorn—on this spot, not two centuries ago, stood the princely residence of Charles Brandon, the chivalrous Duke of Suffolk, whose stout heart was a well of honour, and whose memory breathes of loyalty and valour. But when she was thinking it over in her room that evening vague and baffling doubts came drifting across this conviction. They had asked her to come to the first of the two great annual Fadden Dances, the October one, and Ann Veronica had accepted with enthusiasm. Somehow her walk home with him had been transmogrified into a melodramatic rejection, a slamming.
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