”
Annabel moistened her dry lips with a handkerchief steeped in eau de Cologne. “You knew it,” he added, in her momentary silence. Well, kill me. ’
Lucilla eyed him with one of those particularly feminine looks it was difficult
for a mere male to interpret. ”
He put his hands in his pockets, his mouth puckered to a whistle, and he went
to the door of the outer preparation-room and stood there, looking, save for the
faintest intensification of his natural ruddiness, the embodiment of blond
serenity. He filled his
pipe slowly. "
"For an old bachelor?"
"A human old bachelor. Originally built, as its name imports, in a cylindrical form, like a
modern Martello tower, it had undergone, from time to time, so many alterations,
that its symmetry was, in a great measure, destroyed. So do
please believe that in this matter I am acting for the best. Manning would on no account do, though he was tall and dark
and handsome and kind, and thirty-five and adequately prosperous, and all that a
husband should be.
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