‘Oh! little Vee!’ he cried, ‘little Vee!’ and
put his face between his hands and sat still for a long time before he broke out
again. “Stop! Don’t put your face there. Ann
Veronica pushed aside a tea-cup and the vestiges of her strawberries and cream,
and put her elbows before her on the table. It
was never intended that I should marry Monsieur Valade, but after the tragedy—’
her eyes darkening in genuine distress ‘—and that he was the only survivor, he
came to me in the convent and married me, and brought me to England. I
wonder whether you would mind, Lady Ferringhall,” he went on, with a sudden
glance at her, “if I tell you that you yourself remind me a great deal more of what
she was like then, except of course that your complexion and colouring are
altogether different. ” He made his voice very low and full, and looked
closely into her face. A cold shiver ran through her frame, and her gentle spirit passed away for ever. All the
events of the previous day rushed to his recollection; and though he had been
unintentionally the cause of his mother's death, he reproached himself as
severely as if he had been her actual murderer. No matter how
often she came across this phase in love stories, there was never anything
explanatory: as if all human beings perfectly understood. Professing to
stand between the robber and the robbed, he himself plundered both. One has to train one’s self not to. To find the incentive! But how? Thither and yon the idea
roved, seeking the way. The police are concerned in it in either event.
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