“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. Ennison’s
signet-ring had cut nearly to the bone. It presented a cleanshaven face with a large Corinthian nose, hair tremendously waving off the
forehead and more chin and neck than is good for a man. "Come, come, Jack," said Thames, walking up to Sheppard, and taking his hand,
"have done with this. As he moved about upon the starling, Mr.
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