"
"No fear of that," laughed Kneebone. "To go a little further. ‘And then you will be obliged to remain in France,’ she pointed out. So he shut his eyes. What is the
supreme idea in the heart and mind of youth? To win fame and fortune: and
particularly to enjoy them. ’
A radiant smile dawned. ‘Would it so? What sort of a girl is she, then?’
‘She’s a consummate devil,’ Gerald declared roundly. "I'm glad to find I'm right. "And now, widow," continued the ruffian, setting down the candle, and applying
his lips to the bottle neck as he flung his heavy frame upon a bench, "I've a piece
o' good news for you. It appears that he was an
unsuccessful admirer of the lady in question, and he admits that, under the
influence of drink, he broke into her rooms, and there made a determined
attempt at suicide. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. “Mine is a primitive and unstudied manner. We are
amiable to one another, but we don’t mix. ”
The man made no attempt to recover the revolver. Both had very singular faces; very odd wigs,
very much pulled over their brows; and very large cravats, very much raised
above their chins.
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