”
Anna was not late, but her heart sank within her when she entered the drawingroom. "Is Thames returned
from London?"
"Not yet," replied the other; "but I expect him every minute. "A mother's prayers—a mother's blessings," she cried, with the fervour almost of
inspiration, "will avail against a fiend's malice. "I don't think he would leave me, even if I could part with him," observed Mrs. In a side-glance—for
the floor was variously encumbered with overturned objects—he saw one of his
paper weights, a coloured glass ball such as McClintock used in trade. Paul’s,
were rich and wonderful with the soft sunshine of London, the softest, the finest
grained, the most penetrating and least emphatic sunshine in the world. This intercourse, which had been planned to warm Ann Veronica to a familiar
affection with Ramage, was certainly warming Ramage to a constantly
deepening interest in Ann Veronica. What could she do? Reluctantly, at a second curt
command, she began to step across the uncarpeted floor, her eyes never leaving
the threatening pistol. Sometimes I am
frightfully busy; and then there will be periods of dullness. “I thought you weren’t getting along so well with your
mother these days. That dress she has on—my mother might have worn it. I never made any effort to touch them; so by and by
they learned to light fearlessly on my arms and shoulders. ”
She stopped abruptly, afraid that Ramage might be able to infer Capes from
the things she had said, and indeed his face was very eager. Perhaps, she
may tell me whose picture this is. ”
It was, Ann Veronica felt, at once absurd and extraordinarily right.
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