But at the beginning of the affray, when he
thought every one was too much occupied with his own concerns to remark his
absence, he slipped out of the room, not for the purpose of avoiding the
engagement (for cowardice was not one of his failings), but because he had
another object in view. . He comforted
himself, however, with the certainty which he felt of capturing his prey on the
Sunday. “I’m just off, aunt,” said Ann Veronica. "
"What has he done?"
"He has just naturally peeved his Uncle Sam. Who is it?”
“Your brother Mike!” Michelle chirruped, sounding
uncannily like her mother Diane. Success to our enterprise!"
"Success to our enterprise!" echoed the others, significantly. Norris informed me," returned Charcam, respectfully; "and there's a person
without, anxious for an audience, whom, with submission, I think your honour
would desire to see. Find the thing you want to do most
intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. "
"I can't! I can't—not now!"
"Bat!—can't you see that she's the kind who would understand and forgive? She
loves you. "
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. But of what use to wear it when there was no one of importance to
see and admire?
‘For shame, Melusine,’ protested Lucy, as the butler bowed himself out of the
room. Amongst others, a person near the door, roused by the
shriek, observed a man make his exit with the utmost precipitation. ”
Then he went on to say: “Well, you’ve had your little adventure, and I hope
now you’ve had enough of it.
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