It cost her seventy-seven dollars. Maybe it’s his loss. Yet her aunt, with a ringed hand flitting to
her lips and a puzzled, worried look in her eyes, deaf to all this riot of warmth
and flitting desire, was playing Patience—playing Patience, as if Dionysius and
her curate had died together. ”
“On the contrary,” Anna whispered quietly, “we met in a small boarding-house
where I was stopping. Both these ladies possessed considerable personal attractions. That would be an unkind twist of fate. Besides, by the time
they were off his hands, old McClintock would be dropping in to have his liver
renovated. His demeanour then was sober enough to lend
colour to that belief. The proposal is
so far from being exorbitant, that it should be trebled if I had not a fellow-feeling
in the cause. "
"Unworthy, indeed!" sneered Mrs. Sheppard put out her arms mechanically. I refused to sign a petition in his behalf to the Recorder; not from any ill-will to
him, but because it was prepared by a person whom I particularly dislike—
Captain Darrell. " He then closed the lantern, mounted without much
difficulty upon the roof, and proceeded cautiously along the tiles.
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