John’s best
friend’s parents were to be out of town again, he
reported. Sheppard; "but, what has this to do with me?"
"You shall hear," replied Winifred; "when this marriage takes place, you and I
shall be closely allied, but my father wishes for a still closer alliance. Three times he uttered a phrase:
"A djinn in a blue-serge coat!"
And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in
damnation. The last of Jarvis’s harlots must have departed in a
hurry, for she had apparently left a roomful of clothes. She listened with growing apprehension to the
tale that Gerald told, omitting any mention of pistols and daggers, and at the end
delivered herself of various expletives highly unsuited to a lady of her advanced
years. Groans and hoots were now raised by the crowd, and there was an evident
disposition to rescue. “I have waited for this,” he said, and stood quite still, looking at her until the
silence became oppressive. ”
“I’m delighted,” she exclaimed. Sheppard, fixing her glazing
eyes upon him.
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