’ She halted, her pistol still held firm and straight, both hands gripping it, her expressive features at once determined and uncertain. ’ ‘Sir!’ called Trodger, as the captain began to lead the young lady off. "You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice, your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to perpetrate the outrage I've just described. I know South America and Canada like the lines in my hand. She had to wait some minutes in an outer office, wherein three young men of spirited costume and appearance regarded her with ill-concealed curiosity and admiration. She had come to despise those who were fertile out of pure jealousy, but could not admit it to herself. I know all. That would be an unkind twist of fate. “But if my manner tells! I cannot help it if that shows. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. She had once reconciled in her mind that she was happy as long as she had him.
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