It appeared he had already
ordered dinner and wine, and the whiskered waiter waved in his subordinate
with the soup forthwith. "It would avail him little if he did," replied Kneebone. ”
He shook his head slowly, smiling mysteriously. Ann Veronica brought her luggage in a cab from the hotel; she tipped the hotel
porter sixpence and overpaid the cabman eighteenpence, unpacked some of her
books and possessions, and so made the room a little homelike, and then sat
down in a by no means uncomfortable arm-chair before the fire. I asked
her to marry me, and she consented. Consequences of the Theft. “I
suppose I fell in love with her, Ann Veronica. Moreover, a souple o' porpusses came up with the tide this mornin',
and ha' bin flounderin' about i' the Thames abuv Lunnun Bridge all day long; and
them say-monsters, you know, always proves sure fore runners of a gale. “The Annabel who lives here, who sings every night at the ‘Unusual’? They call
her by your old name. Mr. ”
She watched his face as he traced his way through these speculative thickets. Was
the young lady impatient for experience? Was she adventurous? As a man of the
world he did not think it becoming to accept maidenly calm as anything more
than a mask.
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