And next morning she attired
herself with especial care and neatness, found his address in the Directory at a
post-office, and went to him. With his arms bare, the neckband of his shirt
tucked in, he laboured. She expanded that. “Well?” she said, sitting down again. Besides this, each had a large black patch over his right eye,
and a very queer twist at the left side of his mouth, so that if their object had
been disguise, they could not have adopted better precautions. ’
‘Yes, but I’m afraid I am far too interested to stop mixing myself in your
affairs,’ Gerald said ruefully. Satisfied with his scrutiny, he
produced a pocket-flask, and taking off the silver cup with which it was
mounted, filled it with the contents of the flask, and then seizing the thin arm of
the sleeper, rudely shook it. “I do not know what you mean,” he said, “but if you are referring to any little
coolness since our marriage let us never speak of it again. ”
A little murmur of expectation, an audible silence announced the coming of
“Alcide. Here was not the individual against whom she
had been warned. "You mean, it doesn't
matter?"
"Poor Hoddy! When you were ill in Canton, out of your head, you babbled
words. ”
Anna smiled very faintly. The pistol was his own, it
is true, but it was one which was taken from him when he forced his way in upon
me before. You see, I have had to look after myself so long that I have
developed a terrible bump of independence.
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