He will have to return to Hong-Kong. “Oh,
Veronica!” she said, “to leave your home!”
She had been weeping. He heard the door close;
and in a little while he fell into a doze; and there came a dream filled with
broken pictures, each one of which the girl dominated. Hurt beyond what he could imagine by the selfishness and
pride of her forbears, whose fateful disputes had robbed her of the life she
should have led, the plucky little devil had taken matters into her own hands. I care not. She took it for granted Ann
Veronica wore stays—mild stays, perhaps, but stays, and thought no more of the
matter. ‘Not at all
ladylike. Why he paid so much attention to Sir James Thornhill may be
explained anon. ”
He held out his hand obediently. The Chinamen raised the limp body and
carried it to the hall staircase, up which they mounted laboriously. "Could you get any of the music last night?"
"Yes. “Will you help me?” he asked. Upon a
table, where they had been hastily deposited, on the intelligence of Darrell's
accident, lay a pair of pink kid gloves, bordered with lace, and an enormous fan;
the latter, when opened, represented the metamorphosis and death of Actæon. In the chapel she sang with an open-lunged gusto that
silenced Ann Veronica altogether, and in the exercising-yard slouched round
with carelessly dispersed feet.
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