Is it so, Annabel?”
“I did not know,” she faltered, “anything about you. She did not think Ann Veronica would do as her
companion. Gerald, meanwhile, was off hunting up these lawyers, together with
your son, ma’am—’ turning to Mrs Sindlesham ‘—and you know the outcome of
that. Whatever happened she need never return to that
possibility. It is not you who runs the risk of
going dinnerless to-morrow. Which, let me assure you, villain, will not be so far away. “Why should one pretend?
“Think of all the beauty in the world that is covered up and overlaid. All this juncture, a thundering crash was heard against the side of the bridge. The study seemed absolutely unaltered, there was still
the same lamp with a little chip out of the shade, still the same gas fire, still the
same bundle of blue and white papers, it seemed, with the same pink tape about
them, at the elbow of the arm-chair, still the same father. "You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice,
your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me
strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to
perpetrate the outrage I've just described. Stimulated by the promise of
something handsome to drink, the man acquitted himself to admiration in the
management of his lazy cattle. ‘Aha,’ grunted Gerald with satisfaction, squinting up at the two open shutters
on the second floor. "
Jack made no answer, nor did he even cast his eyes upon his follower.
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