But not once in these ten years had they borne blossom or fruit. ’
‘I find that difficult to believe,’ snapped the general, jerking to and fro as his
agitation mounted. ”
“I suppose not. Everything was
done in the most legal and imposing way, but the whole thing was a fraud. The man asked twelve guineas, but after a little bargaining,
he came down to ten. ’
‘How shocking. ”
“Cooped up!” he cried. "Oh, lud! what's that?" exclaimed a female
voice, from an adjoining room. "
Sir Rowland looked at her for a moment, as if he meditated some terrible reply. And she was as shrewd as
they come. Ah, no, I have it wrong. “Not a penny—not one penny—and never
darken your doors again!”
Part 4
The next day her aunt came again and expostulated, and was just saying it was
“an unheard-of thing” for a girl to leave her home as Ann Veronica had done,
when her father arrived, and was shown in by the pleasant-faced landlady. Anna lets the deception continue and has to bear the
burden of her sister’s reputation which, in Paris at any rate, is that of being a
coquette.
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