’ He looked the girl up and
down. “Do you think it is fair of you to
persecute me just now?”
“It is not persecution, Anna,” he answered gently. We have known men who have come here for no other
purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of
temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life,
only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne. ‘I take it that you like this great-niece of mine?’
‘One cannot help but do so. Sir John heard gossip about us—about Anna the recluse, a paragon
of virtue, and Annabel alias ‘Alcide’ a dancer at the cafés chantants, and
concerning whom there were many stories which were false, and a few—which
were true. gutenberg. Quick! Quick!"
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