CHAPTER XXVII. She had never
thought of him at all in that way before. ‘Dare I
guess at the reason for your sudden interest in émigrés, Gerald?’
‘Lucilla,’ barked Hilary warningly. "
"But she would understand you; whereas she will never understand her father. What could be more splendid than a beautiful girl facing a
great, glorious tiger? Una and the Lion again, and all that! But this isn’t that sort
of thing; this is just a great, ugly, endless wilderness of selfish, sweating, vulgar
competition!”
“That you want to keep me out of?”
“Exactly!” said Mr. Putting his own construction upon this mute interchange of opinions, Jonathan
ventured to observe, that it certainly was a very perplexing case, but that he
thought something might be made of it, and, if left to him, he would undertake to
manage the matter to the Master's entire satisfaction. She laughed a little bitterly. Is it so, Annabel?”
“I did not know,” she faltered, “anything about you. Each human
contact leaves some indelible mark. "One of the consequences of
criminal conduct, is the shame and disgrace which—worse than any punishment
the evil-doer can suffer—is brought by it upon the innocent relatives; and, if
Jack had considered this, perhaps he would not have acted as he has done, and
have entailed so much misery on his unhappy parent. Giles's was lined with spectators. She seemed to have
no idea whatever of the emotional states that were becoming to her age and
position.
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