Gave me a purse, and told me to take both of ’em up to Harwich and put them on
a packet for Holland. . “I think we have,” he answered, gravely, and took her in his arms, and
smoothed her hair from her forehead, and very tenderly kissed her lips. It would put the whole adventure on a
broader and better footing; it seemed, indeed, almost the only possible way in
which she might emerge from her rebellion with anything like success. Yesterday this glorious
creature had loved him; to-day she was only friendly. ”
She took his hand and smiled upon him. He was
manifestly exerting his mind for her, and she found herself fully disposed to
justify his interest. Annabel turned on the electric light and made her
way into the sitting-room. She went about the familiar home with a clearer and clearer sense of inevitable
conclusions. ‘Don’t concern
yourself, Hilary. She was unusually helpful at breakfast, and unselfish about the eggs: and then
she went off to catch the train before her father’s. Ladders, paviour's rams, sledge-hammers, and
other destructive implements were procured, and, in all probability, their purpose
would have been effected, but for the opportune arrival of a detachment of the
guards, who dispersed them, not without some loss of life. She thought of him as
always courteous and helpful, as realizing, indeed, his ideal of protection and
service, as chivalrously leaving her free to live her own life, rejoicing with an
infinite generosity in every detail of her irresponsive being. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber.
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