A swift frown brought the still dark brows together
for a moment. “I wonder if there is!” said Capes, and paused, and then bent down over the
boy who wore his hair like Russell. ’
Alderley glanced round the bedchamber. But they climbed more than
he had intended because Ann Veronica proved rather a good climber, steadyheaded and plucky, rather daring, but quite willing to be cautious at his
command. Pausing at each door on the landing, Jack placed his ear to the keyhole,
and listened intently. The latter walked carelessly towards
the hatch, and leaning his back against the place whence the spike had been
removed, so as completely to hide it, continued smoking his pipe as coolly as if
nothing had happened. Though within the
last two days he had committed several heinous offences, and one of a darker
dye than any with which the reader has been made acquainted, his breast was not
yet so callous as to be wholly insensible to the stings of conscience. ’ Her breath tightened and she was
obliged to control an inner ferocity. It was the end, she told herself, fiercely. He was her only brother, and she his favourite sister. I have Remenham House which is my right. I consider her a very charming young woman—and I
won’t hear a word about Paris, for there are things I don’t understand about that,
but I will stake my word upon it that to-day Miss Pellissier is entitled not only to
our admiration, but to our respect.
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