”
“I thought I explained—”
“Come home!”
Ann Veronica shrugged her shoulders. Then suddenly, in front
of all those windows, he folded her in his arms and pressed her to him, and
kissed her unresisting face. She could have traded it for gold
nuggets and lived like a queen for a few weeks, but she
did not. He could talk to her as frankly as he could to a man, that she would not take
offence at anything so long as it was in the form of explanation. Everything was blurred. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. She ducked behind a pile of unused drywall. Then came
the great day. Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous
undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that
summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy
annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as
preoccupied with them. The child was now
within reach; and, in another moment, he would have executed his deadly
purpose, if an arm from behind had not felled him to the ground. This is no place for me. 1. In this letter, which is addressed to my ill-fated mother,
he speaks of his friendship for Sir Rowland, whom it seems he had known
abroad; but entreats her to keep the marriage secret for a time, for reasons which
are not fully developed.
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