Chapter XI
THE PUZZLEMENT OF NIGEL ENNISON
Nigel Ennison walked towards his club the most puzzled man in London. Capes would come to these teas; he evidently liked to come, and he would
appear in the doorway of the preparation-room, a pleasing note of shyness in his
manner, hovering for an invitation. "O lud! what an exquisite box!" cried Edgeworth Bess. God only
knows what I have done, or left undone. ”
Lucy’s eyebrows knitted, trying to remember an
unfortunate chinless girl running around the school. Why? Because Howard Spurlock
the author dared not risk the liberty of Howard Spurlock the malefactor; because
there were still some dregs in this cup of irony. Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will be
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But presently, as she sat on the one antimacassared red silk chair and surveyed
her hold-all and bag in that tidy, rather vacant, and dehumanized apartment, with
its empty wardrobe and desert toilet-table and pictureless walls and stereotyped
furnishings, a sudden blankness came upon her as though she didn’t matter, and
had been thrust away into this impersonal corner, she and her gear. I spoke a thought aloud. What can a girl do?
Somewhere at this point Ann Veronica’s speculations were interrupted and
turned aside by the approach of a horse and rider. ’
‘Gracious heaven, Gerald! If your dear mama could not drag you to the altar, I
am hardly likely to succeed. And when we see them we shall at
once want to go to them—that’s the way with beautiful things—and down we
shall go, like flies down a wall, to Leukerbad, and so to Leuk Station, here, and
then by train up the Rhone Valley and this little side valley to Stalden; and there,
in the cool of the afternoon, we shall start off up a gorge, torrents and cliffs
below us and above us, to sleep in a half-way inn, and go on next day to Saas
Fee, Saas of the Magic, Saas of the Pagan People. ”
“That is all very well,” said Ann Veronica, unheeded.
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