’ Le Petit Journal said that the man was dead. “Did you—did you really think that they would take you for a Frenchman?” she
exclaimed. "Our talking will not bother him. But they cut it all off. Hist!" cried he,
as a scream was heard from without. She responded at once, rapping him on the knuckles with her fan. I
did it in self-defence. She plucked at the knots of her racket and heard him to the end, then
spoke in a restrained undertone. ‘It is not for myself, you understand,’ pursued the man, in an unctuous tone
that sickened the general, ‘but for this poor one. Your father has forbidden you to go!’”
“Well?”
“She said, ‘I hate being horrid to you and father, but I feel it my duty to go to
that ball!’”
“Felt it her duty!”
“‘Very well,’ I said, ‘then I wash my hands of the whole business. Jackson’s. He personated over there a millionaire named
Meysey Hill, and it seems that he induced Annabel to go through some sort of
marriage with him at the Embassy.
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