That he should pay forty pounds to help this girl who preferred another man
was no less in his eyes than a fraud and mockery that made her denial a
maddening and outrageous disgrace to him. She
refused to accept her fate, but what is it that she could do
about it? Night after night she invented alternatives. But the young man with the orange tie remained in his place, disputing
whether the body had not something or other which he called its legitimate
claims. Sewn on that button yet?"
"I've been afraid to take the coat from under the pillow. ’
Rather to his surprise, she obeyed this injunction as he led her up two flights
of stairs to the first floor. The evening breeze came; the bamboo shades on the
veranda clicked and rasped; the loose edges of the manuscript curled. ’
‘What husband?’
‘Precisely. "
"I see. ”
“Don’t be foolish,” he said sharply. His reputation was slightly tainted by his
marriage to her mother, an exotic blue-eyed raven-haired
beauty, a Gypsy doll with a clandestine heritage. "
"Let's toddle over to the Victoria at once. "But, let me tell you,
it's not a pleasant sight to see the girl one likes in the arms of another. What had shifted his casual interest was
the visible prospect of a party of three who were coming down the packet gangplank. ”
“I want a vote,” said Ann Veronica. It
was on the eve of that memorable rebellion which broke forth, two months later,
in Scotland.
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