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"I wrote you a letter, Miss Amhurst, the last night I was in St. Petersburg in the summer." "Yes, I received it." "No, not this one. It was the night I was captured, and I never got a chance to post it. It was an important letter for me." "I thought it important for me," replied Dorothy, now smiling quite openly. "The Nihilists got it, searching your room after you had been arrested.
Dorothy made no response to this appeal, and after a minute's silence Sabina said practically: "All that has happened is that Miss Amhurst wishes father to present her with a ticket to the ball on the 'Consternation, and taking that for granted, she requests mother to chaperon her, and further expresses a desire that I shall be exceedingly polite to her while we are on board the cruiser."
If we excuse Bolingbroke, who had only saved the shipwreck of his fortunes, we shall be at a loss to justify Pulteney, who could with ease have given this man a considerable income. The utmost of his generosity to Amhurst that I ever heard of was a hogshead of claret!
The newspaper extract you spoke of was not there, and one of the sheets of the letter was missing. Piffling business, I call it, this interfering with private correspondence. Such was the last letter that Alan Drummond was ever to send to Dorothy Amhurst. SUMMER waned; the evenings became chill, although the sun pretended at noon that its power was undiminished.
Others were ready to note down the answers. "'When did you fire the new gun from the "Consternation" in the Baltic? "Dear Miss Amhurst, I have confessed to you that I am not brilliant, and, indeed, such confession was quite unnecessary, for you must speedily have recognized the fact, but here let me boast for a line or two of my one accomplishment, which is mathematical accuracy.
"Great heavens, Dorothy Amhurst, whom I have always regarded as the mildest, sweetest and most charming of girls; to hear you calmly propose to throw a shell among a lot of innocent men defending their own territory against a perfectly unauthorized invasion! Throw a shell, say you, as if you were talking of tossing a copper to a beggar! Oh, Lord, I'm growing old.
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