But Miss Stanley took no notice
of these things. He stood transfixed. Thames unfolded the drawing, smoothed out its
creases, and beheld a portrait of himself. ”
“You mean—you think——”
“Hush! I think that he was concealed in my room, and Annabel and he met there. I don't care how soon he learns that he has lost his adopted son. Mobs were gathered together on the slightest
possible pretext; and these tumultuous assemblages, while committing the most
outrageous excesses, loudly proclaimed their hatred to the house of Hanover, and
their determination to cut off the Protestant succession. "
"You are mocking me, Rowland. She leaned over and kissed his cheek
innocently. She barely heard a word that Martin or
Brown said, until Martin’s voice chimed. They were
ingenious disguises of gilt paper destructively gummed, it would seem, to Ann
Veronicas’ best dancing-slippers. What he told the vicomte I was not
privileged to learn. They
used the rope—not that a rope was at all necessary, but because Ann Veronica’s
exalted state of mind made the fact of the rope agreeably symbolical; and,
anyhow, it did insure a joint death in the event of some remotely possibly
mischance.
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