“Even if he lives here you may go all your life and never come face to face with him again. Almost instantly she had recognized the fallacy of such a statement. He had never wanted daughters. ’ ‘Yes,’ she agreed, but her manner was a degree less warm. He glanced at Miss Klegg again, and spoke quickly and furtively, with eager eyes on Ann Veronica’s face. In the hall below she could hear his firm voice giving quick commands to the servants. She was aware of him—a silk-hatted, shiny-black figure on the opposite side of the Avenue; and then, abruptly and startlingly, he crossed the road and saluted and spoke to her. You were dying and your baby along with you. 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. How came you to know it? Have you heard the name before?" "I think I have—long, long ago, when I was a child," replied Mrs. E.
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