It might have been the moon, or the
phosphorescence of the broken water, or it might have been his abysmal
loneliness; but suddenly he caught her face in his hands and kissed her on the
mouth. Why do
women take to lies and deceit and trickery as naturally as a duck to water?”
“You are not alluding, I hope, to Miss Pellissier?” Ennison said stiffly. Annabel laughed a little uneasily. ‘And you, my girl, if you’d been born at all, would have been just what
you think you are. It was not quite the search I intended,’ he said with a touch of selfmockery as he released her, ‘but success comes in all sorts of unexpected ways. I told him instantly and
shamelessly that the play was going to be worth ten thousand pounds. ”
“He seems like such a nice boy. If you do not find your aunt, my people will take you
under wing until you can stand on your own. “Come in. " And he led the way to an inner room, in
the middle of which stood a table, covered with a large white cloth. ’
‘I had never the intention to tell you anything, pig!’
Gosse moved forward a little. An iron fillet
secured the socket of the bolt and the box of the lock to the main post of the
doorway. In the adjacent apartment Ann Veronica found a middle-aged woman with a
tired face under the tired hat she wore, sitting at a desk opening letters while a
dusky, untidy girl of eight-or nine-and-twenty hammered industriously at a
typewriter. Unconscious of the interest he excited, and entirely occupied by his
own thoughts—which, if his bosom could have been examined, would have been
found composed of mingled hopes and fears—the young man walked on till he
came to an old house, with great projecting bay windows on the first floor, and
situated as nearly as possible at the back of St. Daily contact with actual
human beings all the more inclined her toward the imaginative.
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