’
She thrust him into the aperture, and pushed the hilt of the sword into his
hand. She marvelled at his apparent imperviousness to the heat. This, Wood, acting upon Terry's caution,
was most unwilling to do; but, finding he had no alternative, he reluctantly made
known his errand and the bolts were undrawn. ”
“Borrow the money! But who lent you the money?”
“A friend,” said Ann Veronica. A delicate flush of colour streamed into her cheeks. The coconut plantation covered the west side. She felt he was
going to say something more—something still more personal and intimate. ”
Ann Veronica listened with her eyes on the fire. ’
***
Everett, General Lord Charvill, master of a barony stretching over a wide estate
that encroached on the hundreds of Witham, Thurstable and Dengy, stood before
his own fireplace, glaring at his visitors from under bushy white brows from a
head held necessarily low above a back painfully bent by rheumatism. “What a gloomy person you are!” she murmured.
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