I am entirely English, as you know well. She felt terrible lying to him. And that would spoil it. There was only one sound—the fall of the sea upon the main beach, and even that said: "Hush! Hush! Hus-s-sh!" Not a leaf stirred, not a shadow moved. Ann Veronica was lying on her bed in a darkling room staring at the ceiling. She sat perfectly still, however. She accepted his rejoinder with a brief nod. I thought it better not to send him away till I'd mentioned the circumstance to you. She was fiercely and bitterly jealous. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs, carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. They WERE, she realized, acutely beautiful things. ” Chapter II THE ADVENTURE OF ANNABEL The man spoke mercilessly, incisively, as a surgeon. Annabel was born soulless, a human butterfly, if ever there was one. A stout female stood in the aperture, an oil lamp in her hand.
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