Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing-room, which opened
by French windows on the trim garden, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in
the middle distance, and its remote rose alley lined with smart dahlias and
flaming sunflowers. You’ll have to go back to
Remenham House. “Are you aware, Ann Veronica, you nearly throttled that gentleman?”
Then she reviled her own foolish way of putting it. The woollen-draper was no
despicable trencherman in a general way; but his feats with the knife and fork
were child's sport compared with those of Mr. His build was medium, he would never
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tower over his peers, yet his shoulders were broadening,
betrayed by an undeveloped set of pectoral muscles
underneath his button-down shirt that she could tell
frustrated him. ToC
When Thames Darrell and Jack Sheppard sprang through the window, they were
instantly assailed by Wild, Trenchard, and their attendants. “He is a sad blunderer. He came in apologetically; all the old “Well, and how ARE we?”
note gone; and once he asked Ann Veronica, almost furtively,
“How’s Alice getting on, Vee?” Finally, on the Day, he appeared like his old
professional self transfigured, in the most beautiful light gray trousers Ann
Veronica had ever seen and a new shiny silk hat with a most becoming roll. ” The two congregated
instantly. Sebastian dared not approach her. The
door to the library burst open. "
"I expect no commiseration," returned Mrs. "Away with him!" exclaimed Sir Rowland, impatiently. Austin was
dismissing a host of inquirers who had been attracted thither by the news,—for it
had already been extensively noised abroad.
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