“Odd thing,” Meddoes remarked, “we were just talking about the Pellissier girl. She attacked me with a carving-knife, and,
when I had disarmed her, the jade bit off a couple of fingers from my left hand. Goopes said that we must distinguish
between sincerity and irony, which was often indeed no more than sincerity at
the sublimated level. Adieu! my
charmer. Norris. “It is very nice of you to come, but I do not
think for the present, at any rate, I could give him any other answer. In this spy theory, however, he had no faith whatsoever. A dozen books
lay upon the counterpane. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. His exploits
and escapes are in every body's mouth. ”
Annabel yawned. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed.
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