She missed
them already. The question ceased to be a tea-table talk, and became suddenly tragically real
for Ann Veronica. “It couldn’t be. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her,
he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last
she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay
awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. That
was the true marvel of it. "
"How does Jack bear it?" inquired Mrs. "
Sailors, he thought; and most of them the dregs of the South Seas, casting their
evil glances at this exquisite creature and trying to smirch with innuendo the
crystal clearness of her mind. The word of a
Chinaman; he had given it, so he must abide. "Have the aromatic spirits of ammonia sent to Mr. ‘But I’m hanged if I
know why you find it so amusing. "Weigh anchor, Van!" he shouted to the
skipper, "and consult your despatches. ‘Sindlesham? But Gerald has gone out of town to visit that
very person. I have two days in which to earn nearly
thirty shillings—that is with no dinners, and get a situation.
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