He had removed his silk hat, and
now sat looking at Ann Veronica over an untouched cup of tea; he sat gloating
upon her, trying to catch her eye. My dear! we’ve
had so many moments! I used to go over the times we’d had together, the things
we’d said—like a rosary of beads. Not conceiving that his sister—feeble as she was, and yielding as she
had ever shown herself to his wishes, whether expressed or implied—would
depart without consulting him, he was equally surprised and enraged to hear the
servants busied in transporting her to the carriage. There was all the knavery, and more than all the drollery
of a Spanish picaroon in the laughing eyes of the English apprentice; and, with a
little more warmth and sunniness of skin on the side of the latter, the
resemblance between them would have been complete. It had neither succumbed to her nor wrathfully overwhelmed her. She began to want to lay her head down on his chest
but absolutely denied herself. ’
‘Gérard,’ she said, giving the French version with a soft “g” and not quite
managing the “l”.
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