“Annabel!” He looked at her thoughtfully. With such qualifications as she possessed, two chief channels of employment lay open, and neither attracted her, neither seemed really to offer a conclusive escape from that subjection to mankind against which, in the person of her father, she was rebelling. He was a Canton guide, highly educated, having been graduated from Yale University. Her sister Alice seemed to have developed a religious sense away there in Yorkshire, and made appeals that had no meaning for Ann Veronica’s mind. He had shaved his side-whiskers and come over in flannels, but he was still indisputably the same person who had attended Ann Veronica for the measles and when she swallowed the fish-bone. “Allow me,” the doctor said, “to give you a word of advice, Miss Pellissier. Maybe the girl was telling the truth, and then again, maybe she wasn't. ‘You had better kill me, mademoiselle, because otherwise I shall end by strangling you. Ann Veronica pushed aside a tea-cup and the vestiges of her strawberries and cream, and put her elbows before her on the table. The thought of Capes flooded her being like long-veiled sunlight breaking again through clouds. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. . Will you let me go out of this room?” “No,” cried Ramage; “hear me out! I’ll have that satisfaction, anyhow. They even talked about friendship. “At a boarding-house?” he gasped.
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