’
He took a pace forward, seizing the gun with one hand, while the other locked
her arm so that he could forcibly wrest the weapon from her. ’ A
thought caught in her mind and she turned quickly to her old nurse. . She was nude and
horribly maimed. “It is true,” he said, “that I was dining last night at a restaurant in the Boulevard
des Italiennes, and it is true that my companion was a young lady whose name is
Pellissier. I suspect he has a bit of vanity. I promised to put him in touch with some
people in Rome, an idea which he warmed to. Returning to Mrs Sindlesham’s chair, he
held up the miniature so the face depicted there was turned towards the old lady. ’ With an air of real interest, he asked, ‘I suppose you did not dig a tunnel or
fly in by balloon?’
The lady gazed at him blankly. “You do not know
what such a relation means. Charity for the ragtag
and the bobtail of the Seven Seas, and none for his own flesh and blood. “Why on earth,” he asked, “did you hurt me like that?”
Ann Veronica did her best to think she had not deliberately attempted to cause
him pain. ’
‘And now we know also who is the prétendant, Mademoiselle Charvill. Gay, was a stout,
good-looking, good-humoured man, about thirty-six, with a dark complexion, an
oval face, fine black eyes, full of fire and sensibility, and twinkling with roguish
humour—an expression fully borne out by the mouth, which had a very shrewd
and sarcastic curl.
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