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instant he had her immobilised, her hands behind her back, her chest crushed to
his, the white veil slipping once again. "You'll not forget the thousand, Sir Rowland—short accounts, you know. The cloth was removed, and
Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk
—put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best
consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now
be fairly termed—to their own conversation. “YOU wouldn’t like to be independent?” he asked, abruptly. There was a little pause between them,
full for Ann Veronica of rapid elusive suspicions and intimations. ”
“Any one could see that the girls were ladies,” Ennison murmured. And, in applying
the term to his friend, Thames meant to pay him a high compliment. It was, in
his opinion, the most astonishing letter he had ever read. ”
With a murmured word of excuse she glided away, and Courtlaw, who had come
with a mission which seemed to him to be one of life or death, was left to listen
to the latest art jargon from Chelsea.
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