"It is", seplied Winifred; "have you brought any tidings of Thames Darrell!"
"Troth have I!" replied Terence: "but, bless your angilic face, how did you
contrive to guess that?"
"Is he well?—is he safe?—is he coming back," cried the little girl, disregarding
the question. “If it’s about that dance project,” he said, “it’s no good, Veronica. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. ”
“For example?”
“Your dyed hair. Maggot, as well as her
companion Edgeworth Bess, was showily dressed; nor did either of them disdain
the aid supposed to be lent to a fair skin by the contents of the patchbox. Good-bye, Anna!”
Annabel sprang up. They will
be safe. ”
He sat for a moment, absorbing. Oh! I'm in such a
fluster!"
Upon which, she snatched up her fan, cast a look into the glass, smoothed down
her scarf, threw a soft expression into her features, and led the way into the next
room, whither she was followed by her daughter and Thames Darrell. Ever and again Capes appealed to Ann Veronica. "
"What the devil's in the wind now, Captain?" cried Blueskin, in astonishment. It was
really very nice of you, but to-morrow you will laugh at it as I do now. “If you think it worth while,” she answered doubtfully. She had slept badly at first in a
long chair next to the fire waiting for him to return, but
caught on after that. All my plans have succeeded.
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