CHAPTER XXVII. No man knew whence she had come nor why. Her senses were prickled
when she felt a new pair of eyes upon her. A constant attendant at court, he had the mortification to see every one
promoted but himself, and thus bewails his ill-luck. “Better state of mind,” she gasped. The London backgrounds, in Bloomsbury and
Marylebone, against which these people went to and fro, took on, by reason of
their gray facades, their implacably respectable windows and window-blinds,
their reiterated unmeaning iron railings, a stronger and stronger suggestion of the
flavor of her father at his most obdurate phase, and of all that she felt herself
fighting against. ”
“Is it necessary,” he said, “for me to tell you——”
“Stop, please,” she said firmly. "
There was a pause. It surprised her she hadn’t thought of
it before! She tried to explain that she was going to pay him forty pounds
without fail next week. She produced a handkerchief, and with one
sweep of this and a simultaneous gulp had abolished her fit of weeping. One realized indeed then
where the differences lay; the tender curves about Anna’s mouth transformed
into hard sharp lines in Annabel’s, the eyes of one, truthful and frank, the other’s
more beautiful but with less expression—windows lit with dazzling light, but
through which one saw—nothing. Then
Gosse spoke again, answering the question in her mind.
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