”
He was still conscious when they reached the hospital and his state was much
more favourable. "I had one," answered his sister, in a mournful voice; "and, perhaps, I have one
still. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. ‘You mean I should give myself a dressingdown? Very well. The tension was
palpable. ‘You are Mrs Ibstock, I think,’ she said eagerly. ”
At the sight of her tears his expression changed to a mingling of triumph and
concern. Ennison
seemed to feel already the shadow of tragedy approaching. O'Higgins struck a match and lit his Henry Clay, thereby drawing upon himself
the mutual disapproval of the spinsters.
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