Hitherto it had been qualified by her conception of
all life as a compromise, by her new effort to be unexacting of life. On the
other hand the two young men who sat on either side of Anna were already
throwing murderous glances at the newcomer. ’
‘So would you run away,’ she uttered impulsively. She had to exert
tremendous energy not to sniff the air for his blood. She
didn’t know anything more about your mom. I’ll pay it. This person, whose age might be about forty,
was attired in a brown double-breasted frieze coat, with very wide skirts, and a
very narrow collar; a light drugget waistcoat, with pockets reaching to the knees;
black plush breeches; grey worsted hose; and shoes with round toes, wooden
heels, and high quarters, fastened by small silver buckles. She was
breathing hard, dragging for air, half in fright and half because the sudden effort
had used up what little air she had managed to draw so briefly. Impassive by nature and training, he was
conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by
a dull background of disappointment.
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