”
“I will tell her,” Anna promised. “The thing I feel most disposed to say, Miss Stanley,” he began at last, “is that
this is very sudden. The eyes, too,
though large and bright, and shaded by long lashes, seemed to betoken, as hazel
eyes generally do in men, a faithless and uncertain disposition. He was plainly attired in a riding-dress and boots
of the period, and wore a hanger by his side. That terrible
laughter, just before his senses had left him!
Why? Here was a word that volleyed at her from all directions, numbed and
bewildered her: the multiple echoes of her own first utterance of the word. Proof
that the scoundrel had risen from the dead—for he was dead to his father!
He glared at the female whose appearance in England had revived those
painful memories—churning unbearably since Brewis Charvill had brought him
the news and put him in the worst of tempers—and the fury spilled out. One
of the shutters was a trifle damaged, letting in added light. We’ll go
to the shops. This lapse was possibly due to her apparent
determination to make full protest of Hilary’s conduct.
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