Sir John heard gossip about us—about Anna the recluse, a paragon of virtue, and Annabel alias ‘Alcide’ a dancer at the cafés chantants, and concerning whom there were many stories which were false, and a few—which were true. Creeping stealthily up stairs, unmasking a dark lantern, and glancing into each room as he passed, he was startled in one of them by the appearance of Mrs. She stopped abruptly at the sound of his voice, and lost the thread of what she was saying. If only he had known it, sympathy was almost entirely with him. Her spirit awoke in dismay to an affection in ruins, to the immense undignified disaster that had come to them. She addressed Anna with a beaming smile and a very creditable mixture of condescension and officiousness. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed. The Malays have one, too, but it's a rank imitation, tom-toms and all. ’ ‘I beg your pardon?’ said Miss Froxfield frostily. “As a matter of fact, I deserve to. “They might do you good,” she remarked. ” He made a little noise in his throat as if something had cried out within him, and for a time they were both too full for speech. “It is positively no use, Anna,” she declared, appealingly. When I've had an hour's rest, I'll be after Blueskin.
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