Ann Veronica decided that “hoydenish ragger”
was the only phrase to express her. He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. What passed between them I cannot think—I dare not. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her,
he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last
she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay
awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. At this juncture, Sir Cecil and his followers appeared at the threshold. The lonely widows of robber
barons found him irresistible and he was the guest of
many a fine table. "Well, without immediate care he would have passed out. . She moved her elbow nearer to him and spoke in a still lower tone. Let your father—if he chooses, leave all
his wealth to his adopted son. ”
She looked at him with fluttering eyelids—sweetly grateful. But to England! What has
happened, then?”
Already the terror of a few hours ago seemed to have passed away from the girl
who leaned back so lazily in her chair, watching the tip of her patent shoe swing
backwards and forwards. ”
She pointed to the envelope still resting upon the mantelpiece. "
"What did I forget?"
"The breathless days and the faded, pitiless sky.
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