Everything in his favour—the luck of the gods! The only white men
were miles down the coast. ”
Annabel moistened her dry lips with a handkerchief steeped in eau de Cologne. He saw
three people: a young man at the piano, an elderly man smoking in a corner, and
a young woman reclining in a chair, her eyes closed. “How did you find me?” She asked. Purney's hand-writing," said Jack, advancing, "and
can at once decide whether this is a forgery or not. And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or
had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared
should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut
the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. How she had coveted her mother’s beauty and
sought to emulate it, if only to please her. The easel and palette having been packed up, and the canvass carefully removed
by Austin, the party took leave of the prisoner, who was so much abstracted that
he scarcely noticed their departure. It was enough. It was no easy matter to determine her age, for, though she still retained
a certain youthfulness of appearance, she had many marks in her countenance,
usually indicating the decline of life, but which in her case were, no doubt, the
result of constant and severe indisposition. ”
“I am delighted to see you all here,” Anna said smiling upon them from behind
the tea-tray, “but I shall have to ask you to excuse me for a few minutes. There was first the Avenue,
which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an
undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either
side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings.
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