“Hotel Ritz!” Chapter XXXI ANNA’S TEA PARTY “I suppose you haven’t the least idea who I am,” Lady Lescelles said, as she settled herself in Anna’s most comfortable chair. "But pray tell me if her husband has escaped?" "Her husband!" echoed Jonathan scornfully. ” He said. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for many women it is a lost paradise. Had he been trying to stop the grim descent, and had he dimly perceived that perhaps a fine deed would serve as the initial barrier? A drunken idea—a pearl in the midst of a rubbish heap. What a contrast did the lovely scene she now gazed upon present to the squalid neighbourhood she had recently quitted! On all sides, expanded prospects of country the most exquisite and most varied. The hills surrounded her cave home protectively. She could not help but admit that she liked being smiled at and addressed in the hallways by hordes of friendly faces. “There was an accident with a pistol in Miss Pellissier’s room,” he said. He was a handsome man, and Lucy could see the strong resemblance of John to him.
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