The risk I run is
nothing to yours. Monsieur
Charvill, he has not the means to choose different. “On the stage? Yes. We can get absorbed
in play, in games, in the business we do. She will sail, at early dawn to-morrow, for
Rotterdam. She had tried
to shift the subject of conversation away from herself and
was even managing successfully until Chen the father
addressed her. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. He had brought her here to
this place—where her freedom was curtailed even more than at the convent so
that a cavalier was very much needed—and only on Monday came again. "You will before I'm done with you. Manning, Lady Palsworthy’s nephew, a tall young man of seven-and-thirty with
a handsome, thoughtful, impassive face, a full black mustache, and a certain
heavy luxuriousness of gesture. Where
can I have heard it!"
"Devil knows," rejoined Blueskin. Perhaps, she
may tell me whose picture this is. She said”—Ann Veronica shivered again—“‘I hope
it won’t make you uncomfortable, my dear’—like that—‘and whatever you do,
do be careful of your hair!’ I think—I judge from her manner—that she thought
it was just a little indelicate of us—considering everything; but she tried to be
practical and sympathetic and live down to our standards. Why should you want to shield him?"
"I really don't know. ”
The topic of his invalid wife bored him, and he turned at once to Ann
Veronica.
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