“Who, me? I scare you?” He asked. ’
‘So you think she is an émigré?’ Lucilla put in before the incensed Roding
could respond. ’
‘Parbleu, it is I who am the idiot?’ she scolded furiously, removing one hand
and digging it into her sleeve. “Please, stay a while longer. The water was cold but she waded deeper. That is what they call these aristocratic refugees,
the English. I proceeded to Manchester, to investigate the matter
further, and when there ascertained, beyond a doubt, that you were the eldest
daughter of Sir Montacute Trenchard. He was unaware that his illness had opened the way to the inherent conscience
and that the acquired had been temporarily blanketed, or that there was any
ancient fanaticalism in his blood. That is quite as far as I
mean to tempt Providence to-night. She began to want to lay her head down on his chest
but absolutely denied herself. ‘Who’s this, then? Not soldiers again. Ann Veronica paused before she answered. Such apartments as she saw were either scandalously dirty or
unaccountably dear, or both. On the envelope was written—
Sydney Courtlaw, Esq. The eldest, Constance, was lost, by the
carelessness of a servant, during her infancy, and has never since been heard of:
the youngest, Aliva, is the present Lady Trafford.
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