"
"I can," rejoined Jack; "and you, too, old Aaron, if I'd a razor. Sheppard raised her eyes, and fixed them upon her interrogator. Sir
John and Annabel seated themselves at one of them, and the proprietor himself,
a small dark-visaged man, radiant with smiles, came hurrying up, followed by a
waiter. Then Anna spoke more seriously than usual. He was a
just man, and he did not care to start any thunder which was not based upon
fairness. Her grave fine face, her warm clear complexion,
had already aroused his curiosity as he had gone to and fro in Morningside Park,
and here suddenly he was near to her and talking freely and intimately. It seemed to her that it was her duty to get
up and clamor to go home to her room, to protest against his advances as an
insult. The thought allured him, and therein lay the danger. Parbleu, but must she do this all through the house?
Evidently she must, for not only could she not properly see the paintings and
portraits that hung on the walls, but she was in imminent danger of bumping into
the sheet-shrouded furniture. "Tom Sheppard never said a better thing than that—
ho! ho!"
"Jack," cried his mother, wringing her hands in distraction, "you'll break my
heart!"
"Poh! poh!" returned her son; "women don't so easily break their hearts.
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