Uttering a faint scream, she sank backwards,
and would have fallen, if it had not been for the interposition of Blueskin, who,
at that moment, staggered into the room with a candle in one hand, and the bottle
in the other. As she crossed the square, almost within a stone’s throw of her lodgings, she
came face to face with Courtlaw. Well, come back in half an hour. A great
bowl of scarlet carnations gleamed from a dark corner, set against the
background of a deep brown wall. “Well, I don’t know,” she said thoughtfully. For a while he threatened her. She was supposed to be reading at home,
and after breakfast she strolled into the vegetable garden, and having taken up a
position upon the staging of a disused greenhouse that had the double advantage
of being hidden from the windows of the house and secure from the sudden
appearance of any one, she resumed the reading of Mr. “These are the
playgrounds of life. “What night will you dine and go to the theatre with me?—and how
about Hurlingham on Saturday?”
Anna shook her head. Jackson and Mr. ’
‘I think you—’ He broke off abruptly, astonished at what he had been about to
say. ”
He relapsed into a stony silence.
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