” “Yes,” said Ann Veronica. That night in his den he smoked many pipes. “Well,” she said. “Sir John of course disapproves of me,” she remarked slowly. “I am afraid,” he said gravely, “that your sister has been a little indiscreet. "But, if you are discovered, answer no questions, as you value your life. “I thank you for your advice,” she said. ’ She shrugged fatalistically. It was just a chance that we in particular hit against each other—nothing predestined about it. ’ Lady Bicknacre, resplendent in purple satin, and basking in her triumphantly full rooms—for it was obvious that her patronage of the refugees had set a quickly to be followed fashion—was all sorrow and sympathy when Gerald spoke of them. But his own ferocity was less now that she was disarmed. Paris looms behind—a tragedy of strange recollections—here she emerges Phœnix-like, subtly developed, a flawless woman, beautiful, self-reliant, witty, a woman with the strange gift of making all others beside her seem plain or vulgar. By the time he had reached the summit of this hill, he had lost all trace of them; and the ardour of the chase having in some measure subsided, he began to reproach himself for his folly, in having wandered—as he conceived—so far out of his course.
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