”
He went to the window and fidgeted with the blind, looking out to where the
tree-tops of Regent’s Park showed distantly over the houses. ”
“No,” she moaned, “not that. Why had he glanced up—quite in that way?. "
"No. There came to O'Higgins the discouraging knowledge that upon the heels of a
wonderful chase—blindman's buff in the dark—would come a stretch of dull
inaction. With a moment of inward shame he remembered his
deportment towards Anna. "
"But wasn't I right? That pair?"
"I'll take the boy; he'll be a novelty. Poor fellow! he sometimes indulges the hope of marrying
you, when he grows old enough. "
Figg turned aside to hide the tears that started to his eyes,—for the stout prizefighter, with a man's courage, had a woman's heart,—and the procession again
set forward. But we must not anticipate the course of events. She pulled him towards the bed. ‘Pardon, milor’,’ said Valade, ‘but Monsieur Charvill, he was not at fault. And you don’t know what led to our separation. There were neither texts nor
rubbish on the walls, but only a stirring version of Belshazzar’s feast, a steel
engraving in the early Victorian manner that had some satisfactory blacks.
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