Mesdames Thierry and Poussaint appeared delighted to meet Gerald, and he
was obliged to do the pretty to their daughters too. She was going through
a new world with him side by side. It ought not to be much. It was painful to
want him so much. “And you?”
“Same thing. After a day or so, perhaps, we will go on one or two
little excursions and see how good your head is—a mild scramble or so; and then
up to a hut on a pass just here, and out upon the Blumlis-alp glacier that spreads
out so and so. Nevertheless there came a residuum of expostulations. "
"On no account," rejoined Wood peremptorily. He was not there. His next
occupation was to take out his pistols, examine the priming, and rub the flints. CHAPTER THE THIRD
THE MORNING OF THE CRISIS
Part 1
Two days after came the day of the Crisis, the day of the Fadden Dance. "
"There isn't an angel in heaven, Ruth, purer or sweeter than you are. The place was
crowded, and the people about her were almost equally made up of very goodlooking and enthusiastic young people and a great variety of Goopes-like types. ‘You
said?’
‘Mrs Sindlesham, your great-aunt, miss. "
"He must," exclaimed Jack, hastily; "but only let me have it till to-morrow, and if
I don't entrap him in a snare from which, with all his cunning, he shall find it
difficult to escape, my name's not Jack Sheppard.
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