Uttering a terrible imprecation, Blueskin placed the knife between his teeth, and
endeavoured to seize the poor woman by the throat. ”
He went to the window and fidgeted with the blind, looking out to where the
tree-tops of Regent’s Park showed distantly over the houses. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. “You have not feeling enough. It began as a joke. Although she did not understand why he persisted in this pursuit of her affairs. An
admirable alternative presented itself and she sighed, spreading her hands.
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