. At the Palazzo she had been confined to her own
sunny windowed quarters most of the time, but she had
the entire run of the inside of the manor. “For Heaven’s sake, Dunster, don’t let her out of the carriage, or hansom, or
whatever she came in. "I hope you don't
imagine anything has gone wrong, Sir. “Why—it’s—it’s you!”
Amazement seemed to dry up the torrents of his speech. “Your name and address were upon an envelope found in the pocket of an
Englishman who was brought here late last night suffering from serious
injuries,” he said in a dry official tone. It is the immediate inspiration of confidence; it alleviates pain, because we know
by that smile that pain is soon to leave us; it becomes the bulwark against our
depressive thoughts of death; and it is the promise that we still have a long way
to go before we reach the Great Terminal. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while
she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau
counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small,
whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into
the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and
her bags. The eldest, Constance, was lost, by the
carelessness of a servant, during her infancy, and has never since been heard of:
the youngest, Aliva, is the present Lady Trafford.
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