“So you’re the one my son has been talking about. The Tigress went
prowling for nut, too. ”
Chapter XII
THE POSTER OF “ALCIDE”
On Saturday mornings there was deposited on the plate of each guest at
breakfast time, a long folded paper with Mrs. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. The tired woman looked up in inquiring silence at Ann Veronica’s
diffident entry. ”
“It is,” he replied, “the one humiliation of my life. . ”
“Go!” She did not understand him at first, and then her heart began to beat
very rapidly. His pride, however, would not
suffer him to interfere with their proceedings; much less could he bring himself
to acknowledge that he had been in the wrong, and entreat Lady Trafford to
remain, though he was well aware that her life might be endangered if she
travelled by night. “There I can’t help,” said Capes.
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