"Then you need no further information from me," rejoined Jackson, sternly. ‘And now,’ he said, drawing Madame to the seat, and contriving to sit close
enough that his anatomy touched hers at several points, ‘let us talk about you,
madame. The general did what he might to hush it up, and paid
handsomely to manage it, I daresay. It is
that you cannot refuse her sanctuary. They were now both in a
state of unprecedented physical fitness. ”
“If he lives through the next hour,” the doctor answered, “I will send some one. ‘Rather thought I’d have to disarm
you when you heard of it. The bed-and table-linen were of the finest
texture. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. “Get me someone, Oracle. “You call yourself an artist—
but you have no temperament. The boy would naturally attract the
women, if the women were at all romantic. But,” and he faced them both with a still
expressionless glance, “this is not the end!”
Anna recovered her spirits with marvellous facility.
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