B. It
goes to my heart to disappoint you, but this thing must not be. Afraid there'll be a love-affair. You did not complain then that I personated you—no, nor when
Sir John came to me in Paris, and for your sake I lied. Chapter XXVIII
THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE”
There was a strange and ominous murmur of voices, a shuffling of feet in the
gallery, a silence, which was like the silence before a storm. Any man
might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to
care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried
in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. For two
years he thought himself secure; and, secretly engaged in the Jacobite schemes
of the time, in which, also, Sir Cecil was deeply involved, he began to relax in
his watchfulness over Aliva. And we’re going to fight that old world down there. Hollo rumbled in his
throat. ”
Anna’s eyes were a little dim as she poured out her coffee, and the laugh she
attempted was not altogether a success. The novel danger of the situation
enthralled him.
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