It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued
her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that
might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was
something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the
mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little
dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. ”
Ann Veronica for some indefinable reason did not want to lunch with him, a
reason indeed so indefinable that she dismissed it, and Ramage went through the
outer office with her, alert and attentive, to the vivid interest of the three clerks. ”
“I thought so,” Courtlaw said. She glimpsed
Chinese penury when she entered a square given over to the fishmongers. ‘Ah, yes? To what do I pretend?’
‘That,’ Gerald said regretfully, ‘I have not yet been able to fathom. These petals! I’ve been wanting to cry all the evening, cry here
on your shoulder for my petals. ‘Hilary!’
The captain appeared, alert at the note in his major’s voice as Gerald had
known he would be. It surprised her she hadn’t thought of
it before! She tried to explain that she was going to pay him forty pounds
without fail next week. After dinner Ann Veronica went into the
drawing-room with Miss Stanley, and her father went up to his den for his pipe
and pensive petrography. . . The only difference between the officers of Newgate and their brethren was, that
they had enormous bunches of keys at their girdles, while the latter had left their
keys at home. You get the idea.
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