'You don't know what he is!' replied my aunt. 'You don't know who he is! You don't know what you say!' ¡¡¡¡We had stopped in an empty door-way, while this was passing, and he had stopped too. ¡¡¡¡'Don't look at him!' said my aunt, as I turned my head indignantly, 'but get me a coach, my dear, and wait for me in St. Paul's Churchyard.' ¡¡¡¡'Wait for you?' I replied. ¡¡¡¡'Yes,' rejoined my aunt. 'I must go alone. I must go with him.' ¡¡¡¡'With him, aunt? This man?' ¡¡¡¡'I am in my senses,' she replied, 'and I tell you I must. Get mea coach!'
¡¡¡¡However much astonished I might be, I was sensible that I had no right to refuse compliance with such a peremptory command. I hurried away a few paces, and called a hackney-chariot which was passing empty. Almost before I could let down the steps, my aunt sprang in, I don't know how, and the man followed. She waved her hand to me to go away, so earnestly, that, all confounded as I was, I turned from them at once. In doing so, I heard her say to the coachman, 'Drive anywhere! Drive straight on!' and presently the chariot passed me, going up the hill.
The Virgin and Child with St Anne"
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