” “Suppose he comes and talks to me?” “A girl can always keep a man at a distance if she cares to do it. “Why not? Isn’t the whole thing a lie? Isn’t her reputation, this husband of hers, the ‘Alcide’ business, isn’t it all a cursed juggle? She hasn’t the right to do it. And now—Dear! Dear! The dayspring from on high hath visited me. Sheppard trembled violently; and though she understood his meaning too well, she answered,—"I can't guess. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom he had just left. When she came to herself, she found that her brother had quitted the room, leaving her to the care of a female attendant. ’ She seemed to recollect herself suddenly. ‘You have no idea how dull the militia is compared to the Army.
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