It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. ‘Yes, tell us everything at once,’ instructed Lucilla, pushing him towards the sofa she had vacated, and obliging him to sit beside her. I’m talking to you now as though you had all the wisdom and charity in the world. “Whither away?” he said, very distinctly in a curiously wheedling voice. “All my dreadful scientific things,” said Ann Veronica. ’ ‘Are you mad?’ ‘Gerald is convinced there is a secret passage into the house,’ explained Roding. ‘Yes, but quite my own fault. ‘She?’ ‘Damnation!’ He saw her frown, and added at once, ‘I beg your pardon, ma’am. He changed his mind however, and simply motioned to her to proceed. ’ ‘That I do not doubt,’ Gerald muttered drily, but added in a tone of intense satisfaction, ‘Then this husband is still in France? Excellent. She spotted her opportunity. By and by he gathered enough courage to lean toward her. And as he walked by her side they began a wrangle that was none the less pleasant to Ann Veronica because it served to banish a disagreeable preoccupation. Capes and her father stood up, and her father made a belated movement toward the curtain. ’ ‘Will you have done, Gerald?’ demanded Hilary, exasperated.
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