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You used to beg me for hours at a time to give it all up, never to go near the 'Ambassador's' again. And yet the moment I am safely out of the way you are content to dress yourself in my rags, to go and get yourself popular and admired and successful, all on my reputation." "Annabel! Annabel!" Annabel stamped her foot. Her tone was hoarse with passion. "Oh, you can act!" she cried.
Richards, with sanctimonious rolling of her eyes, admitted that she had recognized long before an inherent coarseness in the character of Persis Dale. Others like Annabel Sinclair exclaimed over the folly of burdening one's self with juvenile responsibilities when free to seek distraction wherever one pleased. Diantha did not agree with her mother.
'Tremble, Venetia. My only thought in this life is the happiness of my child. It was in peril. 'Nay, I trust not that, mamma: you are prejudiced against Plantagenet. It makes me very unhappy, and him also. 'He is again your suitor? said Lady Annabel, with a scrutinising glance. 'Indeed he is not. 'He will be, said Lady Annabel. 'Prepare yourself.
"You have forgotten. I am your husband, though as yet your hand has scarcely lain in mine." "It was a mistake," she faltered. "You told me that your name was Meysey Hill. I thought that you were he." His face darkened. "I did it for love of you," he said. "I lied, as I would have committed a murder, or done any evil deed sooner than lose you. What does it matter? I am not a pauper, Annabel.
"It's perfect nonsense," broke in Miss Annabel. "Leslie is no more likely to marry him than you are, Margaret!" "Marry whom?" asked Lawyer Ed eagerly, "Me?" Miss Annabel screamed and said he was perfectly dreadful, but Mrs. Willoughby broke in. "No, not you, you conceited thing, but your partner. I thought Leslie claimed him as her property.
She had taught herself to look upon her father's burst of feeling towards Lady Annabel as the momentary and inevitable result of a meeting so unexpected and overpowering, but she did not doubt that the stranger whose presence had ultimately so fatally clouded that interview of promise, possessed claims upon Marmion Herbert which he would neither break, nor, upon reflection, be desirous to question.
Egremont, for whom was your visit intended? Shall I put you down at Mr. Newthorpe's door, or had you my humble house in view? 'It is natural to me to count upon The Chestnuts as a place of rest, at all events, Walter replied. 'I should not have ventured to disturb Mr. Newthorpe this evening. 'We will wait at the door, Mrs. Ormonde, put in Annabel. 'Father will come out as he always does.
'Well, you do talk nonsense, and the greatest, said Plantagenet, doggedly; 'you are talking nonsense now, you are always talking nonsense, and you never open your mouth about Lady Annabel without talking nonsense. 'If I was not very ill I would give it you, said his mother, grinding her teeth. 'O you brat! You wicked brat, you! Is this the way to address me?
It was a subject of deep regret to Lady Annabel that herself and her family were debarred from the advantage of more frequent and convenient spiritual consolation; but, at this time, the parochial discipline of the Church of England was not so strict as it fortunately is at present.
The fondness between the mother and her daughter was unbroken and undiminished. They shared again the same studies and the same amusements. Lady Annabel perhaps indulged the conviction that Venetia had imbibed the belief that her father was no more, and yet in truth that father was the sole idea on which her child ever brooded.
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