Who knows?—on the analogy of “Squiggles” she might come to call
him “Mangles!”
“I don’t think I can ever marry any one,” she said, and fell suddenly into
another set of considerations that perplexed her for a time. . He paused at the bamboo curtain of her room, which was in semi-darkness. “An annuity—a sum of money paid to you yearly or quarterly through my
solicitors, and which you can consider as a gift from your sister. ‘I trust you are cursing Valade, and not Melusine. ‘The cat’s foot, Hilary. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. “Thank you. You cannot depart hence. "You must have made some
exertion to keep your present appointment. Ann Veronica paused before she answered. ”
It was settled. Cathy reached out and
touched Lucy’s chin with her two fingers, gently
commanding her attention.
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