The drawers at the moment were too busy to attend to her, and she would have seized the opportunity of examining, unperceived, the assemblage within, through a little curtained window that overlooked the adjoining chamber, if an impediment had not existed in the shape of Baptist Kettleby, whose portly person entirely obscured the view. A few minutes later Sir John left the room. But after all, what did it matter whether she had secrets or not? To him she was not a woman but a symbol; and one did not investigate the antecedents of symbols. “Anna,” he pleaded, “be merciful. The vicomte must be well known to those high-born who have gone to England. She had even played in an opera by Verdi once, but had to dress as a boy to do it. On his way he made a slight divergence from the direct route and paused for a moment outside the flat where Anna was now living. "It is the voice of inspiration," said Thames; "and I receive it as a solemn command. A conviction that her sister’s words were true had from the first possessed her. Running his hand carefully over it in search of the lock, he perceived to his dismay that it was fastened on the other side. Once he had managed to stake his claim, she would have all to do to prove her identity and win it back. The Master of the Mint was accompanied by another gentleman almost as portly as himself, and quite as deliberate in his movements. ” She looked at her toes.
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