The asylum was approached by a broad gravel walk,
leading through a garden edged on either side by a stone balustrade, and shaded
by tufted trees. It’s a beautiful plant, but a tender one. The picture in her mind altered and she saw again the way
Gerald had looked with consternation upon the bruises he had inflicted on her
wrist. So I ran away, blindly, knowing nothing of the world outside. Your career at
the bar had given you a command of language, also a self-control not vouchsafed
to us ordinary mortals. For if the likeness between the
sisters was remarkable, the likeness between this girl and the poster which he
had come from studying was more remarkable still. “We’re going to be sensible. Whisky kills him suddenly; it does not
sap him gradually. She crawled into her small bed,
dizzy with the thoughts of him, of kissing him. ’
Mrs Prudence Sindlesham, a widow of several years’ standing, so she told
Gerald, was a scarecrow of a female, long and lank of limb in a figure that had
once been willowy. Annabel seated herself in an
easy chair and determined to wait for her sister’s return. He made Hong-Kong
at dusk: wet, hungry, and a bit groggy for the want of sleep; but he was in no
wise discouraged. As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady. "I disown you. It got on my nerves—the women
I saw.
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