“A nice time of anxiety you’ve given me, young lady,” he said, as he entered
the room. Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. There was a little murmur of
consternation from the waiting crowd, and the florid young woman showed signs
of temper, to which Mr. She slipped on
white thin-soled tennis shoes with no socks, her ankles
exposed as Shari had once suggested they be worn. Why must her old nurse discover her
precisely at this moment?
‘What are you at now, may I ask?’ Martha glared at the footman. “Home, of course,” she answered. Wood
thought them both remarkably plain, but Mr. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and
unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise
over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence
which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his
inclinations. And even if that,’ she added
bitterly, ‘he must be also a person of a disposition extremely mad, that he can go
against the family. He was well mounted, as was his companion; and had
pistols in his holsters, and a hanger at his girdle. I hope you won’t think less of me, you’ve
treated me so well. "
"Then he has been unfortunate?"
"That's patent enough. He had fallen off when trying to tie down his
aluminum paint ladder.
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