Sheppard's attention; and no sooner did
she in some degree recover from the shock occasioned by the sight of her son's
debased condition, than, regardless of any other consideration except his instant
removal from the contaminating society by which he was surrounded, and utterly
forgetting the more cautious plan she meant to have adopted, she rushed into the
room, and summoned him to follow her. He was disquieted. She could tell that he probably
wanted to kiss her, but she did not act upon the
opportunity. Courtlaw found himself ushered without questions into Annabel’s long low
drawing-room, fragrant with flowers and somewhat to his surprise, crowded with
guests. “Can I bring you anything, sir—a whisky and soda, or a liqueur? You’ll excuse
me, sir, but you haven’t touched your coffee. "What?—help take care of him? Why, you can't do that, Miss
Enschede!" was the protest. But not so much a pig as that man. ‘Something for you, Lucy?’ he asked, interrupting a heated argument that had
obviously been in progress for some little time before their arrival. ”
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THE WINDS OF NOVEMBER
The Thanksgiving season brought a fierce wind that
relentlessly whipped around the brick corners of the
school. Stanley used his authority, and commanded Ann Veronica to come home, to
which, of course, she said she wouldn’t; and then he warned her not to defy him,
warned her very solemnly, and then commanded her again. Where is
Father Spencer? I must have absolution. Sheppard, vainly trying to discover a gleam of compassion
in the thief-taker's inexorable countenance,—"Mercy! mercy!"
"Pshaw!" rejoined Jonathan. “Why can’t we
propagate by sexless spores, as the ferns do? We restrict each other, we badger
each other, friendship is poisoned and buried under it!.
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