"His lordship desires me to say—ough! ough!"
Fresh groans and hisses. ’
‘For God’s sake, don’t accuse her of murder,’ begged Gerald, retrieving the
lady’s hat and handing it to her, ‘or she’ll be challenging me to a duel again. . She realized dimly that there was no personal thing behind
his cry, that countless myriads of Mannings had “My God!”-ed with an equal
gusto at situations as flatly apprehended. ”
“You should try out for the town orchestra. He would
pursue that little pastime on some other occasion. The raising of
twenty-five pounds was a task altogether beyond her powers. Ann Veronica stood in the twilight room staring at the door that had slammed
upon her aunt, her pocket-handkerchief rolled tightly in her hand. ‘I will
fight to the death, if it needs. I don’t
understand the workings of a gentleman’s mind. \"No. ’
He sat looking her over in silence for a moment or two, his thoughts revolving
around the name and the way it fitted so exquisitely on quite another set of
features. Ennison was
deeply interested. She found herself
anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British
Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essays and
then through various scientific quarterlies for his research papers.
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