When the twins had first come to live in the
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house, they were thin and bony, their tiny mouths crying
for food. Casting a hasty glance at the old and ruinous prison belonging
to the liberty of the Bishop of Winchester (whose palace formerly adjoined the
river), called the Clink, which gave its name to the street, along which he
walked: and noticing, with some uneasiness, the melancholy manner in which
the wind whistled through its barred casements, the carpenter followed his
companion down an opening to the right, and presently arrived at the water-side. Petrified and speechless, he turned an
imploring look at Wild, who was himself filled with astonishment at the pile of
rubbish lying before him. That is what they call these aristocratic refugees,
the English. Ah Cum is a Yale man and so is this Taber. ”
It was, Ann Veronica felt, at once absurd and extraordinarily right. After all, why should I care what strangers think?" Ruth asked
with sudden heat. It
ran in rivulets down her face, penetrating her hood and
the thick quilting of her coat. "What is a family album?"
"You poor child, do you mean to tell me you've never seen a family album?
Why, it's a book filled with the photographs of your grandmothers and
grandfathers, your aunts and uncles and cousins, your mother and father when
they were little. He used a
most awful word! Then he said, ‘It’s Ann Veronica gone to join her sister!’
‘Gone!’ I said. Traversing what remained of Wych Street at a rapid
pace, and speeding along Drury Lane, the trio soon found themselves in
Kendrick Yard. “It’s the warming up of the year, the coming of the
light mornings, the way in which everything begins to run about and begin new
things. The
old fool’s been working on you through your sister to keep off the stage. The
prison gates were besieged like the entrance of a booth at a fair; and the
Condemned Hold where he was confined, and to which visitors were admitted at
the moderate rate of a guinea a-head, had quite the appearance of a showroom. I shall lose my fees and the laced coat.
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