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I told him that I was not ‘Alcide. “How old are you?” “Sixteen. “Odd thing,” Meddoes remarked, “we were just talking about the Pellissier girl. Abruptly she desisted, recoiled, and turned and fled up-stairs. ‘Where is there that I can go?’ All at once Alderley felt acutely suspicious. They have retired. He would be off her case just as soon as his fever for her broke and he found a lover, and she imagined he must have plenty of girls from ritzy families lining up to choose from. The latter looked very pale, either from the effect of his wound, which was not yet entirely healed, or from suppressed emotion,—partly, perhaps, from both causes,—and wore his left arm in a sling. Then came the shock of the knowledge that soon he would be going upon his way, that there would be no one to depend upon her; and all the old loneliness came smothering down upon her again. He went on with intense urgency. At Christmas he gave her a set of a small edition of Meredith’s novels, very prettily bound in flexible leather, being guided in the choice of an author, as he intimated, rather by her preferences than his own. Common offences may be decided upon by deputy; but outrages perpetrated by men of rank, as these appear to be, must be judged by the Master of the Mint in person. I—well, I borrowed Anna’s name. “A joke! Sir John, if you had presented yourself here an hour ago we should have greeted you in pained silence.
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