“What you have said is a ridiculous falsehood,” she declared scornfully. I wonder what it was. Anna glanced into her sister’s face, and rose to her feet. She even thought that perhaps she might come to love him, in spite of that faint indefinable flavor of absurdity that pervaded his courtly bearing. That was one of the mysterious qualities of this child of the lagoon: she had always at instant service that Oriental mask of impenetrable calm that no Occidental trick could dislodge. Conceiving the opportunity too favourable to be lost, Jack sprang suddenly over the hedge, and before the man, who was floundering on the ground with one foot in the stirrup, could extricate himself from his embarrassing position, secured his pistols, which he drew from the holsters, and held them to his head. Sheppard. Wood, meantime, had not remained idle. She remained stonily in the middle of the hallway until the spinsters' door shut them from view … for ever.
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