She doubted how she stood toward him and what the restrained gleam of his face might signify. Had it come already? Chapter XXVII JOHN FERRINGHAM, GENTLEMAN “Confess, my dear husband,” Annabel said lightly, “that you are bewildered. Perhaps my wife has already prepared you for what I wish to say. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. Springing upon the box, he told the coachman to make the best of his way to Saint Giles's. ” “It is very nice of you to think of it,” Anna said briskly. What else could one say? I left him to suppose—a registry perhaps. She ought to have been disposed to faint and scream at all these happenings; she ought to have maintained a front of outraged dignity to veil the sinking of her heart. . She had flung away from her father’s support with the finest assumption of personal independence. It would not be possible otherwise to live in daily contact with this level-eyed, lovely girl without loving her. The fanatic has no such word in his vocabulary. No great lover of state or state costume at any time, he was generally, towards the close of an evening, completely in dishabille, and in this condition he now presented himself to his subjects.
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