“I’ve
tried to make words tell it. It is Anna again who stands between me and
ruin. She didn’t choose her man. ” He uttered thoughtfully. ”
He came and stood on the hearthrug close to her. “I know nothing
whatever of his friends or his home. No pistols, no daggers today?’
‘Would you have me show a pistol with so many soldiers? I am not a fool. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. My garden-close
would be a better thing than that. He then
mounted the jaded hack, which had long since regained its legs, and was quietly
browsing the grass at the road-side, and, striking spurs into its side, rode off. Marina had retired to bed, drinking wine
slowly, sleeping when she was not drinking. From this sorrowful state he was aroused by a loud derisive whistle, followed by
a still louder laugh; and, looking up, he beheld the impudent countenance of Jack
Sheppard immediately before him. ”
She had a moment of sheer panic at the thing she had done. If one wants a thing
very much, perhaps one is inclined to think one can’t have it.
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