One’s sense of proportion, battered out of all shape in the daily life of cities, reasserts itself. The girl who had just left the room was as great a mystery to him now as on the afternoon when he had met her in Piccadilly and taken her to tea. The rejection caught him like a slap in the face. ‘What in the world is that?’ demanded Miss Froxfield. Urging his steed along Oxford Road,— as that great approach to the metropolis was then termed,—he soon passed Marylebone Lane, beyond which, with the exception of a few scattered houses, the country was completely open on the right, and laid out in pleasant fields and gardens; nor did he draw in the rein until he arrived at Tyburn-gate, where, before he turned off upon the Edgeware Road, he halted for a moment, to glance at the place of execution. At once. They were all stout ill-favoured men, attired in the regular jail-livery of scratch wig and snuff-coloured suit; and had all a strong family likeness to each other. “Well, he’s really smart. "God forgive me for using such a word!" he cried, in a troubled tone; "if I hadn't yielded to my wife's silly request, this wouldn't have happened!" CHAPTER VII. Anyhow, she’s disappeared for some reason or other. Another coach was then procured, in which the prisoner was placed. ” Annabel pulled up her veil. " And he looked at the moment as if he had lost all desire to know it. "Is it you?" "It is," replied Sheppard, as he untied the cords. You are—or rather you were——” he corrected himself with an unpleasant little laugh, “Miss Pellissier, eh?” A little sensation followed upon his words.
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