I thought it
was a mirror at the first, for it was so very like myself. She was looking about her,
and her face was dark with anger. Earles is going out at twelve sharp—important engagement. ”
CONTENTS
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came
down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have
things out with her father that very evening. You are infatuated. Charvill’s command of French was enough to tell him
that, for its entire content was devoted to commending Nicholas Charvill’s
fourteen year old daughter into the care of the Abbess. ” A flush of excitement
crept into her cheeks. But in between these wider phases of comparative confidence were
gaps of disconcerting doubt, when the universe was presented as making sinister
and threatening faces at her, defying her to defy, preparing a humiliating and
shameful overthrow. There was no railway beyond Frutigen in
those days; they sent their baggage by post to Kandersteg, and walked along the
mule path to the left of the stream to that queer hollow among the precipices,
Blau See, where the petrifying branches of trees lie in the blue deeps of an icy
lake, and pine-trees clamber among gigantic boulders. ”
“Who cooked it all?” He asked. ”
“Is that bad?” A shade of concern deepened on
Shari’s face. ‘For your messenger was obliged instead to come
and find Hilary, and it has given me the opportunity to meet you. Get a license—just an idea of mine.
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