Oriental rugs adorned the sea of shiny
hardwood floors, kept polished with an eye for detail that
bordered on Japanese. “I think I ought to have one. “I don’t know what you are talking about, Michelle, I
truly don’t. “Then why the devil,” he demanded, “do you let
me stand you dinners and the opera—and why do you come to a cabinet
particuliar with me?”
He became radiant with anger. ”
“And the man stands as the master at the mouth of the den. I’ve never wanted to get away so much. It was nearly one o’clock; but there
were lights still in all her windows. ”
“If your business with me is of any importance,” Anna said calmly, “it does not
matter in the least about the hour. ’ She raised the pistol. "I have a token to deliver to you," continued the stranger, addressing her. ’
Grudgingly, the sergeant shifted aside and allowed her access to the stairs,
grumbling to her retreating back, ‘If I’d me way, missie, I’d send you back to
France where you ought never to have come away from, if you arst me. I had done the most compromising things, and behaved
in the most ridiculous way. He wore a French military
undress of the period, with high jack-boots, and a laced hat; and, though his
attire indicated no particular rank, he had completely the air of a person of
distinction.
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