His arms released from his
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sides, he lifted them around her in a light embrace. ”
“I am going to ask more than a favour,” she said slowly. ” He dabbed with his paper-weight again, and
spoke in an entirely indifferent tone. ”
She lifted her eyebrows. For a few minutes he kept them at
bay. I received a telegram, as you know,
during dinner. Everything, Miss Miniver said, was “working up,” everything was “coming
on”—the Higher Thought, the Simple Life, Socialism, Humanitarianism, it was
all the same really. “What made you marry him? What made you
leave Paris without a word to any one? What made you and your sister exchange
identities?”
“There is one answer to all those questions, Nigel,” she said, with a nervous little
shudder. "It is not too late to repair the wrong I have done my nephew," cried Trenchard. "
"True, true," replied the knight, with an agonized look; "there is no alternative. "
"Willingly. Stanley,
putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor,
and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity,
asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do
you propose to live?”
“I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica. Or I should have made love to you long
ago. You had better let me go
again. She sat in a chair in the parlour and regarded the darkening sky through the
small casement window.
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