"Aye—to pretend to her that you don't care. Frequently she
would doze in her chair; but the slightest movement on the bed aroused her. ’
‘Sit down, Hilary,’ ordered Lucilla, and to Gerald’s amusement, her betrothed
did so, perching on the desk close by and staring fixedly at the major. He probably imagines himself to be a
thousand times worse off than he actually is. “My sister is sure to be
out. Besides, revenge is sweetened by delay; and I indulge
too freely in the passion to rob it of any of its zest. ’
He received a glare from his captive. He parried without apparent effort. “I hate you because you are the Devil! Rot in Hell!”
She was shocked at her own accusation, how she had
savored the words. So, in broken, rather breathless phrases, he told his story; and
when he had done, he laid his arms upon the table and bent his head to them. ”
Some one hidden from Ann Veronica appeared to be marshalling the
assembly. "
"What?"
"We'll put those stories back into the trunk and never speak of them to him. Abruptly she desisted, recoiled, and turned and fled up-stairs.
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