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And Soames was not happy, worried by the thought: 'How when where can I say what? They did not yet even know that he was married. To tell them he was married might jeopardise his every chance; yet, if he did not definitely make them understand that he wished for Annette's hand, it would be dropping into some other clutch before he was free to claim it.
Until the end of the performance he remained silent, a prey to thought; then when the storm of enthusiasm had at last subsided he offered his arm to the Duchess, while the Marquis took Annette's. They descended the grand stairway again, in the midst of a stream of men and women, in a sort of slow and magnificent cascade of bare shoulders, sumptuous gowns, and black coats.
"Well, Laura, you are a chip off the old block; just like your mother, always ready to take Annette's part." "I think, Mrs. Larkins, it is the finest compliment you can pay me, to tell me that I am like my dear mother." "Good morning," said Mr. Luzerne, entering Mr. Thomas' office. "Are you busy?"
Couldn't get the particulars." "But Annette's brother is in Toronto," said Adrien, gravely. "Exactly!" cried Vic. "That is what I have been telling you. A hurry call phone message for Annette horrible accident. Maitland rushed her right away in his car to catch the midnight to Toronto." "By Jove! That is too bad," said Hugh, a genuine sympathy in his honest voice.
She had not before felt the thing that gave a new pulse to her body and a joyful pain at her breasts. Her eyes got thickly blurred so that she could not see Annette, and, without a word, she hurried to get the meal. She was silent when she came back. She put the meal into Annette's hands. She felt that she would like to talk of Armand. She knew now there was no evil thought in Annette.
She gasped with wonder and suspense, as she laid the letter before the place where Annette had been sitting, and returned to her seat as a spectator, though far from a calm one: that warmhearted note had made her wishes his earnest partisans, and all her pulses throbbed with the desire that Annette might decide in favour of him; but she thought it wrong to try to influence her, and held her peace, though her heart leapt into her mouth at her sister's exclamation on seeing the letter, and her cheeks glowed when the flush darted into Annette's.
Van Diemen imitated the disconsolate appearance of a gallows body, in one of those rapid flashes of spontaneous veri-similitude which spring of an inborn horror painting itself on the outside. "A Deserter!" he moaned. He succeeded in impressing the terrible nature of the stigma upon Annette's imagination.
Met that Johnny the big chap dancing with Annette, you know just met him quite worked up a hurry call for the girl for the girl, Annette, you know." "The girl!" exclaimed Patricia. "You said Captain Jack." "I know! I know!" replied Vic, somewhat impatiently. "I am a bit excited, I confess. Rather nasty thing Annette's brother, you know something wrong accident, I think.
"I cannot," she interrupted; "Annette's cottage is near, and I fear nothing; besides, here is my shaggy page," she said, pointing to the large dog which followed her; "and he is as trusty in his office, as any that ever attended the steps of a roving damsel."
The words struck familiarly on Aunt Juley's ears. Ah! yes; that funny drawing of George's, which had not been shown them! But what did Imogen mean? That her uncle always wanted more than he could have? It was not at all nice to think like that. Imogen's voice rose clear and clipped: "Imagine! Annette's only two years older than me; it must be awful for her, married to Uncle Soames."
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