‘So are you. “Hotel Ritz!”
Chapter XXXI
ANNA’S TEA PARTY
“I suppose you haven’t the least idea who I am,” Lady Lescelles said, as she
settled herself in Anna’s most comfortable chair. Up to this
moment, hopes had been entertained of a respite, strong representations in his
favour having been made in the highest quarter; but now that his fate seemed
sealed, the curiosity of the sight-seeing public to behold him was redoubled. She
refused to accept her fate, but what is it that she could do
about it? Night after night she invented alternatives. In
futur', I'll keep the 'Evenin' Star' for his lordship's enemies. To think of him as loving her would make all that
different. "He lives at Dollis Hill, a beautiful
spot near Willesden, about four or five miles from town, where he has taken a
farm. Say, ever see any one resembling that photograph I
dropped?"
"So many come and go," said Ah Cum, shrugging. ‘I do not understand you. "
"From some of your associates?"
"From your uncle, from my uncle,—Sir Rowland Trenchard. It is useless to
contend with him, even with right on your side. Wood, contemptuously, "he'll never mend till he comes to
Tyburn. In passing, why do we fear death? For our sins? Rather, isn't it the tremendous
inherent human curiosity to know what is going to happen to-morrow that causes
us to wince at the thought of annihilation? A subconscious resentment against
the idea of entering darkness while our neighbour will proceed with his petty
affairs as usual?
"It's nip and tuck," said the doctor; "but we'll pull him through. No girl with a face like that….
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