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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. Likely as not outside the
law, too. He was instantly overpowered, and stretched upon the ground. He cabled to New York: "Probable destination known. She waited
for him to leave the room, and turned back to Gerald. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes. “A glass slipped from the table,” he
explained. The investigators
should have thought to check inside the garbage can. It is her duty to tell
me, and I would not have her think that I had been trying to work upon your
sympathies to learn her secrets. We have seen great and sober-minded men come to this unholy city,
and become degenerates. And as he walked by her side they began a wrangle that
was none the less pleasant to Ann Veronica because it served to banish a
disagreeable preoccupation. Passing at a glance over the whole of the intervening period; leaving in the
words of the poet,
—The growth untried
Of that wide gap—
we shall resume our narrative at the beginning of June, 1715. ‘That is what she wants, is it?’
‘Do you blame her?’ he said stiffly.
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