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Cadurcis, who was received by Lady Annabel with the greatest courtesy. 'A terrible journey, exclaimed Mrs. Cadurcis, fanning herself as she took her seat, 'and so very hot! Plantagenet, my love, make your bow! Have not I always told you to make a bow when you enter a room, especially where there are strangers? This is Lady Annabel Herbert, who was so kind as to call upon us.
Although a morning's stroll from Cherbury through the woods, Cadurcis was distant nearly ten miles by the road, and that road was in great part impassable, save in favourable seasons. This visit, therefore, was an expedition; and Lady Annabel, fearing the fatigue for a child, determined to leave Venetia at home, from whom she had actually never been separated one hour in her life.
'Nay, said Lord Cadurcis, in a joyous tone, 'Lady Annabel will answer for me that I always find everything perfect under her roof. Captain Cadurcis and Venetia now re-entered the villa; they clustered round the table, and seated themselves. 'Why, Venetia, said Cadurcis, 'George met me in Sicily and quite frightened me about you.
'The dear Doctor! said Cadurcis: 'five years have brought no visible change even to him; perhaps he may be a degree less agile, but I will not believe it. And Lady Annabel; it seems to me your mother is more youthful and beautiful than ever.
The pain and torpor of her last short illness were already overmastering her. Maggie was alarmed at the burning touch of her hand, but she had no experience to guide her and her own great joy to make her selfish. "Annabel, look at me for a moment. I have wonderful news to give you."
She had, in the society of her mother, indeed, the advantage of communing with a mind not less refined and cultivated than her own. Lady Annabel was a companion whose conversation, from reading and reflection, was eminently suggestive; and their hours, though they lived in solitude, never hung heavy. They were always employed, and always cheerful. But Venetia was not more than cheerful.
"The Annabel who lives here, who sings every night at the 'Unusual'? They call her by your old name. Her hair and voice and figure are as yours used to be. Who is she, I say?" "My sister!" Annabel faltered. He trembled violently. He seemed to be labouring under some great excitement. "I am a fool," he said. "All these days I have taken her for you.
Brimstead expressed his private opinion in a clearly audible whisper: "Say, that kind o' protection is better'n none. A humly boy don't git tramped on an' nibbled too much." Annabel and Harry sat in a corner playing checkers. They seemed to be much impressed by the opinion of Mr. Brimstead. For a moment their game was forgotten. "That boy has a way with the gals," Samson laughed.
He paced the floor, thinking of Annabel, wondering whether she would soon be in London, longing to see her. And before he went to bed, he wrote a letter to Mr. Newthorpe, expressing the anxiety with which he had heard of his illness. Of himself he said little; the few words that came to his pen concerning the Lambeth crusade were rather lifeless.
'She is not there, for I have just quitted it, replied Lady Annabel. 'How very strange! You have not seen the signora? inquired Lady Annabel of the waiter. 'The signora is in the room with the gentleman. 'The gentleman! exclaimed Lady Annabel. 'Tell me, good man, what do you mean? I am inquiring for my daughter. 'I know well the signora is talking of her daughter, replied the waiter.
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