Since the accession of George the First to the throne in the preceding year, every effort had been made by the partisans of the Stuarts to shake the credit of the existing government, and to gain supporters to their cause. The boat rocked violently with the struggle. But over against the world Miss Miniver assembled a small but energetic minority, the Children of Light—people she described as “being in the van,” or “altogether in the van,” about whom Ann Veronica’s mind was disposed to be more sceptical. ” He smiled at the naiveté of her suggestion. "A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. His stories had enchanted her, even if in some deep corner of her heart she guessed they were not entirely true. He saw her eyes pass him and settle on a fleetingly pretty strawberry blond girl and her effeminate father. 175 “Before you tell me the whole story,” she emphasized the penultimate word, “just let me do something for you. As she came in this morning she saw that the lamp was still burning in the study; so she stopped at the door. You’re dogmatic. Even were she to get an opportunity to scream, it would be some time before such a call, unprecedented though it might be, brought the nuns so much out of their absorption that they interrupted their prayer to investigate. They were silent and no longer observant, being more or less exhausted by the tedious action of the chairs. She loved him. ‘How happy for you that Valade came to take you away from France,’ he said encouragingly, adding with one of those intimate looks, ‘Happy for me, too.
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