”
“Well,” she said, “has there not been some reason for this? The likeness to
Annabel could scarcely have escaped remark. It was well for him that he had taken his place by Sheppard, as regard for the
latter alone prevented the deadliest missiles being hurled at him. She turned out the electric light and gained the hall. You should have confided in me, and fallen in with my plan at the beginning. ‘You don’t know the whole, child. ’
The listening soldiers began to snigger behind their hands. Was she interested in that young ass who was risking his bones over there in the
city? They had come up on the same boat. She listened with growing apprehension to the
tale that Gerald told, omitting any mention of pistols and daggers, and at the end
delivered herself of various expletives highly unsuited to a lady of her advanced
years. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber. Or was that perhaps because his business in Piccadilly the other day had
gone awry? Perhaps Brewis Charvill had not welcomed him with open arms. It
was only a matter of time. Jolly nice girl, too. “The smallest will do for me
quite well. " His demeanour was
polished; his manners singularly affable and gentle; and he was remarkable, for
the generosity of his temper.
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