“What he had was altogether
insufficient. She
saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran
down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the
slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from
the sides—and the beating of her heart. She frowned and gripped her hands about her knees very tightly. The poor fellow's half smothered. Annabel saw it,
and suddenly changed her tone. The smells of skewered
fennel, roast chicken, and broiled pheasant saturated the
air, and she could smell other wonderful aromas about
them. The shock and distress were genuine. A dozen
shynesses and intellectual barriers were being outflanked or broken down in her
mind. A few steps brought him to the door of the vault in which his mother was
immured. ”
“Do you think it is really worth while?” Lady Lescelles asked gently. The
doors were closed and barricaded, and the mob threatened to burst them open if
Jack was not delivered to them. “Politics!” Ennison answered grimly. ”
The figure of her aunt, a little distant, a little propitiatory, behind the coffee
things, filled her with a sense of almost catastrophic adventure. She found a little difficulty in beginning. .
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