Enschede, to have starved his heart as well as Ruth's
because, having laid a curse, he knew not how to turn aside from it! How easily
he might have forgotten the unworthy mother in the love of the child! And this
day to hear her voice lifted in a quality of anathema. “I shall send for a policeman,” Anna said, “directly my maid answers the bell—
unless you choose to go before. She had
arranged for a supper of tea, a boiled egg, and some tinned peaches. You have said a thousand times that there was no
shame in you. Because of the thought of love and companionship? No. "
"I'm sorry I can't indulge you," replied her master, a little piqued. “I’ve thought about it. ”
Chapter III
ANNA? OR ANNABEL?
Sir John was wholly unable to understand the laugh and semi-ironical cheer
which greeted his entrance to the smoking-room of the English Club on the
following evening. "I could almost find in my heart to quarrel with Jack Sheppard for occasioning
you so much pain," observed little Winifred Wood, as, having completed her
ministration to the best of her ability, she helped Thames on with his coat. She felt that for a time at any rate her depressing struggle against
continual failure was at an end. He said daring things with a grace
which made them irresistible, his eyes flashed back upon her some eloquent but
silent appreciation of the change in her manner towards him. Advancing towards the Master, and claiming an audience, which was instantly
granted, Jonathan, without much circumlocution, related the sum of the strange
story he had just learnt from Wood, omitting nothing except a few trifling
particulars, which he thought it politic to keep back; and, with this view, he said
not a word of there being any probability of capturing the fugitive, but, on the
contrary, roundly asserted that his informant had witnessed that person's escape. “I feel justified then,” he said, “in annexing his chair. All at once it came to him what a fool he was to worry over this phase which
was wholly suppositional.
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