He had been for months without music of the character he loved—and he
dared not play any of it!
McClintock, after the music began, left the piano and sat in a corner just beyond
the circle of light cast by the lamp. Something happened
down there, and probably I'll never know what. ”
The full significance of her words did not instantly appear to him. He forgot Annabel’s idle attempts at love-making,
all the cul-de-sac gallantry of the moment. She was the social leader of Morningside Park,
and in her superficial and euphuistic way an extremely kind and pleasant
woman. The study seemed absolutely unaltered, there was still
the same lamp with a little chip out of the shade, still the same gas fire, still the
same bundle of blue and white papers, it seemed, with the same pink tape about
them, at the elbow of the arm-chair, still the same father. I mean to have you! Don’t frown me off
now. We may be stopped. Depend upon it, there is
a place for you—waiting. As
his death was by no means what Jonathan desired, he resolved to remove him to
a more airy ward, and afford him such slight comforts as might tend to his
restoration, or at least keep him alive until the period of execution. ”
“How?”
“Well—a little clumsily. His age was not far from fifty. Cut it as short as you can.
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