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‘Slaughtered with the rest, was she?’
Despite his hatred of the woman who had caused so much grief, the general
found he could not rejoice as he wanted to. The action did not pass unnoticed by Sheppard. . A
creeping numbness invaded her. “You are very kind,” she said hesitatingly, “but I don’t remember—I don’t think
that I know you, do I?”
“I am afraid that you do not,” he admitted, with a smile which he meant to be
encouraging. I had dreamt of the olive
grove beyond the courtyard I had once been fascinated
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with as a boy. She was surprised at his
modesty. "
The two janizaries followed him as far as the entrance to the inner room, when
Abraham, raising his finger to his lips, and glancing significantly in the direction
of the boys, to explain his intention to his companions, closed the door after
them, and stole softly back again, planting himself near the recess. “He is Annabel’s husband,” she reminded him. Both the janizary and the skipper arose as the others entered the room. She was posing
before the mirror, critically, miserably, defensively, and perhaps bewilderedly. ’
‘She?’ scoffed Martha. “Oh,
Veronica!” she said, “to leave your home!”
She had been weeping. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing
wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’
He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke.
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