”
“Will you tell me,” Sir John said ponderously, “by what right you call that young
lady—la petite Pellissier? I should be glad to know how you dare to allude to her
in a public place in such a disrespectful manner!”
Drummond looked at him and smiled. Why would your mother
be so impatient?” Lucy speculated. Now what I want you to
feel is this. She dropped on her knees by his side, and gently unbuttoned his
waistcoat. “A glass slipped from the table,” he
explained. Oh! I'm in such a
fluster!"
Upon which, she snatched up her fan, cast a look into the glass, smoothed down
her scarf, threw a soft expression into her features, and led the way into the next
room, whither she was followed by her daughter and Thames Darrell. As she talked, the drift and significance of what she was
saying shaped itself slowly to Ann Veronica’s apprehension. She looked
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forward to when Sebastian visited. She glanced into her companion’s face, and she saw
there strange things. "I'll pledge you in that
toast with all my heart. “There wasn’t. She
come home within a few months of the wedding. Well, I was all for dragging in Bow Street
there and then, and getting the pair of those fraudsters thrown in gaol. ’
‘You mean the bookroom, miss.
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