‘To
where has he gone off?’
‘No use asking me,’ shrugged the captain. He removed his
cockaded hat, putting it down between them as he sat at the other end, placing
himself at an angle and, crossing his legs, leaned back at his ease, his eyes fixed
on her face. Under the plumed hat, her eye kindled. ”
“I am highly flattered,” she remarked, with subtle irony. "
"You are right, Sir," said the worthy carpenter, rising. It seemed at first the most beautiful afternoon of all time to her, and perhaps
the thrill of her excitement did add a distinctive and culminating keenness to the
day. ’
Captain Roding stared at her, his jaw dropping, while Lucilla hastily turned
away, although Melusine caught the laughter in her face. She followed the landlady half way up-stairs, and called up to Ann Veronica,
“May I come up? It’s me! You know—Nettie Miniver!” She appeared before
Ann Veronica could clearly recall who Nettie Miniver might be. It was a moment or two before Gerald realised that he could feel the
fluttering of her pulse beneath the light touch he had on her wrist, and that her
fingers were trembling in his. But when she turned her thoughts to Morningside Park she perceived the
tangled skein of life was now to be further complicated by his romantic
importunity. “I will tell you the truth. "
The answer to this request was a "smack" of a very different description,
bestowed upon Sheppard's outstretched face by the little damsel, as she ran out
of the room. She heard this
standard expression of a strong soul wrung with a critical coldness that
astonished herself.
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