She forgot Anna’s
sacrifices, forgot her own callousness, forgot the burden which she had fastened
upon her sister’s shoulders. ”
Chapter XXV
THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH
The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room
with a deferential little gesture. ”
“Annabel Pellissier is married,” Courtlaw said quietly. As she went on, the story began to sound more and more like a recitation. ‘If you’ll have the goodness, missie, to move yourself out of the way,’ he said
aggrievedly, ‘and let us at him, we might have a chance of doing just that. . ’
‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’
‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather
will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that
he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong.
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