I suppose we’re all human
beings really, but what price the sacred Institution of the Family! Us as a bundle!
Eh?. ”
He was very indifferent. 238
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IN BED
John drove her home after school nearly every day. ‘You heard Gosse—I mean, the man you know as Valade?’
‘Clear as day, miss,’ he uttered. She wondered what the problem
was, why the buildup?
She wanted to go to his apartment that evening but
stayed herself. "
"It ought to be; it cost enough to get it here," said the Scot, ruefully. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her
complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably,
by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes
which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely
more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. . The
moisture from the sea was constant, and she spent
countless hours staring at the sea from the west tower,
the rise and fall of waves. Perhaps I ought not to; but this isn't a case to fiddle-faddle over. Try your luck with Jarvis Remenham—if you will. "
"Do not talk thus, dear mother," returned Jack, gazing anxiously at her pale
countenance, "or I shall not be able to quit you. Even in her own sorry skin-and-bones state of
wraithlike pallor and gray under eye circles she was
drawing unwanted attention from would-be admirers. ’
Chapter Five
‘Now then, young Jack,’ Gerald said, turning to the lad, who was sitting in the
place lately vacated by his self-appointed mistress, but in a state of far less
relaxation. Why didn’t he die?”
Anna sprang to her feet and walked restlessly up and down the room.
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