If ever I did meet a man I could
love, I should love him”—her voice dropped again—“platonically. He knocked on the
doorframe. As a rule, Courtlaw told her softly,
he talked right and left, and to everybody throughout the whole of the meal—tonight he was almost silent, and seemed to devote his whole attention to staring at
Anna. Fritz sang for her sometimes, for Fritz could sing even
before he was able to form words. ”
She lingered over her tea, and glancing around, a sudden reflection on the
change in her surroundings from the scene of her last night’s supper brought a
faint, humorous smile to her lips. "
Half an hour after this occurrence, when it had been sufficiently laughed at and
discussed; when the wager had been settled, and the chairman dismissed with the
remaining three guineas, which Shotbolt was compelled to pay; Ireton arose, and
signified his intention of stepping across the street to inform Mr. ’
‘You see? Not to be trusted,’ Hilary uttered disgustedly. This
astute personage was somewhat under the middle size, but fairly proportioned,
inclining rather to strength than symmetry, and abounding more in muscle than
in flesh. In the afternoon my
brain and fingers leap to their work because you have been with me. “I don’t see there’s any getting away from the fact that you and I love each
other,” he said, slowly. After all, what did it matter?—it or anything else in the world? She was
within reach of his arms, beautiful, compelling, herself as it seemed suddenly
conscious of the light which was burning in his eyes. "Do you still refuse to make
one!"
"I have made one," replied Lady Trafford. Wells
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANN VERONICA ***
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