“Hotel Ritz!” Chapter XXXI ANNA’S TEA PARTY “I suppose you haven’t the least idea who I am,” Lady Lescelles said, as she settled herself in Anna’s most comfortable chair. It is the immediate inspiration of confidence; it alleviates pain, because we know by that smile that pain is soon to leave us; it becomes the bulwark against our depressive thoughts of death; and it is the promise that we still have a long way to go before we reach the Great Terminal. On this side stood the instruments with which the latter piece of pleasantry had been effected,—namely, a bucket filled with paint and a brush: on that was erected a trophy, consisting of a watchman's rattle, a laced hat, with the crown knocked out, and its place supplied by a lantern, a campaign wig saturated with punch, a torn steen-kirk and ruffles, some halfdozen staves, and a broken sword. ‘Don’t tell me. He could not permit her to remain in that position. And taking the keys, he departed on the errand. . She goes out and comes home. Somebody to depend upon her; somebody to have need of her, if only for a little while. Then it came to her with a shock, as an extraordinary oversight, that she could never tell Manning about Ramage—never. Wood became sensible that he was not alone. He pictured himself visiting the girl in this shabby little home of her aunt’s—she had told him that it was shabby—and he recalled that delicious little smile with which she would surely greet him, a smile which seemed to be a matter of the eyes as well as the lips. ’ ‘What husband?’ ‘Precisely. Wild is a friend of yours, I'm sorry for what I said. ” “You can’t be killed?” He asked.
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