” Miss Stanley reflected as Ann Veronica went toward the house. She looked at me as though I were some unclean thing, as though my soul were weighted with every sin in the calendar. Ann Veronica sat back in an attitude of inattention, her eyes on a distant game of cricket, her mind perplexed and busy. There was something which chilled even him in the cold impassivity of her features. " "As for that, I don't say. His face was that of a quick, intelligent-looking boy, with fine hazel eyes, and a clear olive complexion. He looked around, and as he heard that deafening shout,— as he felt the influence of those thousand eyes fixed upon him,—as he listened to the cheers, all his misgivings—if he had any—vanished, and he felt more as if he were marching to a triumph, than proceeding to a shameful death. What else was there lurked in shadows and deep places; if in some mood of reverie it came out into the light, it was presently overwhelmed and hustled back again into hiding. Returning to Mrs Sindlesham’s chair, he held up the miniature so the face depicted there was turned towards the old lady. CHAPTER XXVII His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent thought. Nothing stronger than water has passed my lips for years. She was unusually helpful at breakfast, and unselfish about the eggs: and then she went off to catch the train before her father’s. This manoeuvre was so suddenly executed that it took Abraham completely by surprise.
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