His was the Latin turn of thinking; he had fallen in love at thirteen, and he was
still capable—he prided himself—of falling in love. Then
a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as
amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined—
to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a
great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon
molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. The
Widgetts talked with a remarkable absence of external coverings; the
Palsworthys found all the meanings of life on its surfaces. “Is this true, Annabel? Is
he dead?”
She nodded. ‘Seems quiet enough,’ observed the junior officer, his gaze raking the
shuttered windows of the building’s grey stone frontage. ”
Part 11
They sat for a time without speaking a word, in an enormous shining globe of
mutual satisfaction. She would just walk out of the
house and go. And how could I come home—when he
locks me in rooms and all that?”
“I do wish this wasn’t going on,” said Miss Stanley, after a pause. ”
“I haven’t told any one the amount,” he went on. “Eight, Cavendish Square. It's as well to be on the safe side. As to Thames, though deeply and painfully affected by the
horrible occurrence that had marked his return to his old friends, he was yet able
to control his feelings, and devote himself to the alleviation of the distress of the
more immediate sufferers by the calamity. "
"Stop!" interposed Edgeworth Bess; "Mr. "
"Would he had done so!" cried Jack.
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