” Chapter III ANNA? OR ANNABEL? Sir John was wholly unable to understand the laugh and semi-ironical cheer which greeted his entrance to the smoking-room of the English Club on the following evening. Beneath these prints, a cluster of hobnails, driven into the wall, formed certain letters, which, if properly deciphered, produced the words, "Paul Groves, cobler;" and under the name, traced in charcoal, appeared the following record of the poor fellow's fate, "Hung himsel in this rum for luv off licker;" accompanied by a graphic sketch of the unhappy suicide dangling from a beam. “Miss Pellissier,” he said, “I don’t understand this change in you. The latter haughtily returned his salutation, and flung himself, as if exhausted, into a chair. Be this as it may, though a Catholic, he died a friend to the Protestant succession. Three little letters can’t make a bit of difference. Even now, during the recurring doubts of the future, the thought of the island was repellent. Her pulses began to race. Crossing several fields, newly mown, or filled with lines of tedded hay, she arrived, not without great exertion, at the summit of a hill. She pulled her chair with a mild creak and marched towards the stair. Only a few, but enough for me to understand that some act had driven you to this part of the world, where the hunted hide. . Poor thing! how beautiful she looks! but how like death!" Deathlike, indeed, was the repose of the sleeper,—deathlike and deep. He started a dozen stories, but they all ended in the waste-basket.
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