There is no hidden beast in you,
Hoddy. Why
did I not realise it at once? It just shows how one should not judge by
appearances. After a brief conversation, which Sheppard
sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and
addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her. Lucy inhaled deeply. Sydney and Brendon vied with one another in their efforts to engage Anna in
conversation, and Miss Ellicot, during the momentary lull, deemed it a
favourable opportunity to recommence siege operations. Nothing but the
publicity of the place and the recollection of that terrible constituency kept him
from attempting some perfectly respectful but unmistakable evidence of his
sympathy. "And when I further tell you," continued Jack, "that, after yourself and my
mother, I am the next heir to the estates of my grandfather, Sir Montacute
Trenchard, you will perhaps own that my caution is sufficiently disinterested. "And I want to thank you, too," supplemented Ruth.
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