” He read it in winter in the evening after dinner, and Ann Veronica
associated it with a tendency to monopolize the lamp, and to spread a very worn
pair of dappled fawn-skin slippers across the fender. "
"You have forgotten that you are in my power," returned the knight, sternly; "and
that all your allies cannot save you from my resentment. “This has all the clean
freshness of spring and youth,” said Capes; “it is love with the down on; it is like
the glitter of dew in the sunlight to be lovers such as we are, with no more than
one warm kiss between us. It will serve you out
if I give her dagger back to mademoiselle, so that she can plunge it right into
your chest. ’
‘But it is a very good English name,’ she protested. CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
I THE CARPET-KNIGHT AND THE
7
LADY
II THE ADVENTURE OF ANNABEL
15
III ANNA? OR ANNABEL?
20
IV THE TEMPERAMENT OF AN
26
ARTIST
V “ALCIDE”
31
VI A QUESTION OF
36
IDENTIFICATION
VII MISS PELLISSIER’S SUSPICIONS
41
VIII “WHITE’S”
45
IX BRENDON’S LUCK
54
X THE TRAGEDY OF AN
61
APPETITE
XI THE PUZZLEMENT OF NIGEL
66
ENNISON
XII THE POSTER OF “ALCIDE”
70
XIII “HE WILL NOT FORGET!”
76
XIV “THIS IS MY WIFE”
81
XV A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
89
XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR
96
JOHN
XVII THE CHANGE IN “ALCIDE”
103
XVIII ANNABEL AND “ALCIDE”
109
XIX “THIS IS NOT THE END”
115
XX ANNA’S SURRENDER
121
XXI HER SISTER’S SECRET
126
XXII AN OLD FOOL
134
XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT
AT LAST
XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE
XXV THE STEEL EDGE OF THE
TRUTH
XXVI ANNABEL IS WARNED
XXVII JOHN FERRINGHAM,
GENTLEMAN
XXVIII THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE”
XXIX MONTAGUE HILL PLAYS THE
GAME
XXX SIR JOHN’S NECKTIE
XXXI ANNA’S TEA PARTY
XXXII SIX MONTHS AFTER
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169
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183
188
ANNA THE ADVENTURESS
Chapter I
THE CARPET-KNIGHT AND THE LADY
The girl paused and steadied herself for a moment against a field gate. The doctor here says he can get you aboard to-morrow
night. Larry fell off the truck the Wednesday night before
she planned on leaving. "I merely asked the question," he said, after he had enjoyed the boy's suspense
for a moment. “Oh, yes, that’s right, we go to school. ’
Emile’s eyes blazed. Apologizing to Sir
Rowland for this unpleasant reception, and swearing lustily at his servant for
occasioning it by leaving the dogs at liberty, Jonathan ordered the man to light
them to the audience-room.
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