After a while, he raised his eyes; and, if their glance could have been witnessed at the moment, it could not have been easily forgotten. "A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. Gosse was backing towards the table. Stanley used his authority, and commanded Ann Veronica to come home, to which, of course, she said she wouldn’t; and then he warned her not to defy him, warned her very solemnly, and then commanded her again. Spurling, "ay and found Van Galgebrok too. You shall not take me alive. Annabel passed on with a strained nod to her sister, and Sir John’s bow was a miracle of icy displeasure. “We will do Paris like the tourists, and thank God here comes dinner. She had asked to borrow his pencil out of dire necessity. Her back stiffened. She uttered a little ejaculative note of joy and rushed to the bed. It was a neat, efficient-looking room, with a writing-table placed with a business-like regard to the window, and a bookcase surmounted by a pig’s skull, a dissected frog in a sealed bottle, and a pile of shiny, black-covered note-books. Yet, stay! There is one thing I wish you to do. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost glad it had been reached. Reverse psychology or something, it’s like she was trying to draw him nearer by pushing him away.
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