When the twins had first come to live in the 208 house, they were thin and bony, their tiny mouths crying for food. ‘What’s more,’ went on Martha, ‘I knew something Mr Charvill didn’t, or he wouldn’t so readily have left it behind him. ” “I promise,” Annabel declared. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. “Oh yes,” said Miss Klegg; “I thought every one knew. No sooner had Trenchard crossed the threshold than a fierce barking was heard at the farther extremity of the passage, and, the next moment, a couple of mastiffs of the largest size rushed furiously towards him. I hated the stuff. An ordinary type, of course—” Mrs. ‘Unheard of, ain’t it? To tell the truth, I half expected him to leave everything to one of his doxies. Ann Veronica listened thoughtfully, with her eyes on the turf, and now and then she asked a question or looked up to discuss a point. He had scarcely entered the arch, when the indraught was so violent, and the noise of the wind so dreadful and astounding, that he almost determined to relinquish the undertaking. ’ ‘What name would you like, then?’ Her shadowed features turned in his direction. He measured out the portion of another peg, the bottle wavering in his hand. I am sorry to seem to hurt you, but all I say is for your good. ’ ‘Don’t be stuffy, Hilary,’ admonished his betrothed.
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