Then came
the great day. “I’ve
gotta go. ‘You, Mademoiselle Charvill, are as unlike most of your sex as you can
be. ”
Even in the glamour of Miss Brett’s assurance it seemed to Ann Veronica that
this was, after all, no more than the gospel of Miss Miniver with a new set of
resonances. ‘And I’d like to know what the devil—’
‘Out of town?’ repeated Melusine, stupefied. The news that his granddaughter desired an audience
Lord Charvill had greeted with merely a grunt, which turned into a roar as his
gorge rose when he heard that she was accompanied by her husband. It seemed to her in her restored geniality that she
liked Manning extremely. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. "He has heard of your
wonderful escapes, and wishes to see what you're like. Everything. Before a month has elapsed, your
mother will be mine. The gallows is in view—I see it
with all its hideous apparatus!—ough!" and shuddering violently, she placed her
hands before her, as if to exclude some frightful vision from her sight. Brendon and Courtlaw who had been
watching for her, met her at the door. Besides the table close by loaded
with books, there was a central table with upright chairs around, covered in a
multitude of papers, inks and quills, and assorted unrelated items such as playing
cards.
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