Groping their way through one or two dark and mouldy-smelling vaults, the
party ascended a flight of steps, which brought them to the hall. ’
Her hand shook as he took it in his, and she uttered involuntarily, ‘Oh, it was
so horrible! They came like animals, with long knives that they use to cut grass,
and heavy clubs. ‘Odd sort of a nun. . It was his mother, and as he gazed on her pallid
features and motionless frame, Jack's heart severely smote him. “Please don’t be sad. There were groves of cultivated guava, orange, lemon, and pomegranate. Ennison!”
He released her. Annabel
watched her with wide-open, terrified eyes. He was still flashily dressed, with much obvious
jewellery and the shiniest of patent boots, but his general bearing and appearance
had altered for the worse. One glance swept across the place
and it was immediately apparent that Pottiswick had not, this time, been
mistaken. In
her usual style, she interviewed him for his life and was
pleased that he liked nothing more than to talk about
himself. As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady.
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