“You can’t imagine,” he said, “what a beastly thing a furtive love affair can
be. She was herself conscious of a recklessness of spirits almost
hysterical. She had noticed a twenty year pattern emerging, and
funny how opportunity seemed to strike just when she
was getting truly anxious. "
In less time than Hobson had mentioned, the carriage was announced. “Cheer up, Annabel. . She was obliged, as she explained
continually to every one who cared to listen, to be so very particular. Then
I think I remarked that science was disgracefully under-endowed, and confessed
I’d had to take to more profitable courses. ’
‘What for?’ asked Gerald, half laughing, as he put his hand in his pocket and
brought out his elegant pistol. Talk to her of the new
story; divert her; for this day her heart has been twisted sorely. Once, when he thought he had done so, he
smiled an ingratiating smile. On the other a wretched engraving of the Chevalier de Saint George, or, as he
was styled in the label attached to the portrait, James the Third, raised a
suspicion that the inmate of the house was not altogether free from some tincture
of Jacobitism.
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