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Arthur stepped up in the dilemma, and the tips of Miss Huntley's white-gloved fingers were laid upon his arm. It would take her some time to forgive Hamish, favourite though he was. Later on, Hamish took the opportunity of reading Miss Annabel a private lecture on the expediency of minding her own business. Hamish was in his new post now, at the bank: thoroughly well-established.
It was significant of her influence over him that he answered her calmly, although a storm of angry thoughts were struggling for expression within him. "Look after her! Why not? But you have done it all your life. You have been her guardian angel. But even you cannot alter her character. Annabel was born soulless, a human butterfly, if ever there was one.
She could not quite associate the sad, abstracted man up the road with "Annabel Lee." What a puzzle it all was! She went downstairs presently, and was sitting on the area steps watching Cousin Jennie iron, when the tall figure in her shabby black hat and veil, which she invariably wore, came up the outer steps. Hanny ran to open the gate. Mrs. Clemm was always quietly dignified.
The hillside immediately in front of those who stood here was so deeply shadowed that its contrast threw the vision of unearthly light into distance immeasurable. A wind was rising, but, though its low whistling sound was very audible, it seemed to be in the upper air; here scarcely a breath was felt. Annabel said: 'Have you seen Thyrza's portrait? 'Yes.
After speaking with Mrs. Tyrrell, he had a private interview with Paula. The event was referred to in a letter Paula addressed to her cousin Annabel in the course of the ensuing week. 'Dear Bell, We are much relieved by your letter. It is of course impossible to stay among those mountains for the rest of the winter; I hope uncle will very soon be well enough to come south.
"Lord!" he panted, but her gaze held him mercilessly. "I'm not likely to forget it." "What I want to know is this. How old was Annabel when when you kissed her?" Thomas drew out his handkerchief and mopped his damp forehead. "Why, I s'pose she was fifteen or sixteen. She wasn't as tall as Diantha is, and I guess she was a few years younger." Persis did not reply.
"Yes, I have to go back to my convent, and drag poor Miss Chantry with me, though she is a heretic and bates the forms of our religion. But she has to submit, and so do I, because my father will have nobody but an English governess." "Mademoiselle," spoke Miss Chantry, "I would suggest that you sit on a chair by yourself." "What, on one of those little crowded chairs?" said Annabel.
What I shall do I know not; but this I know, the world shall ring with my name; I will be a man, and a great man! The agitation of Venetia on her return was not unnoticed by her mother; but Lady Annabel ascribed it to a far different cause than the real one.
The education of her daughter was not only the principal duty of Lady Annabel, but her chief delight. To cultivate the nascent intelligence of a child, in those days, was not the mere piece of scientific mechanism that the admirable labours of so many ingenious writers have since permitted it comparatively to become. In those days there was no Mrs.
The child lay on the bed in her little summer frock, her face very white now after the shock, Nurse had come carrying the youngest child: and little Annabel stood holding her skirt. Winifred, terribly serious and wooden-seeming, was bending over the knee, from which she had taken his blood-soaked handkerchief. Egbert bent forward, too, keeping more sangfroid in his face than in his heart.
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