They had not proceeded far when a low moan was heard. E. Businesswomen
in pointy-toed shoes swooned coyly in his direction,
tipping their noses over their glossy magazines to admire
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him. Everybody, he felt, must be listening behind their
papers. The eyes, too,
though large and bright, and shaded by long lashes, seemed to betoken, as hazel
eyes generally do in men, a faithless and uncertain disposition. There were two. A scene now ensued, highly characteristic of the age, and the occasion. ”
“I will have your reason for this,” he said. ”
Chapter II
THE ADVENTURE OF ANNABEL
The man spoke mercilessly, incisively, as a surgeon. He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. Afterward her brother
Roddy, also strange in velveteen, feeling rather than knowing of this
relationship, punched this Adonis’s head. ’
‘This is not a new thing,’ Melusine snapped, goaded. White became conscious of a distinct sense of
uneasiness, and showed it in her face.
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