ABOUT THE STORY Annabel Pellissier, for reasons of her own, allows Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister Anna. What was the objection? She found it impossible to look her own diffidence in the face. "I had no hand in the affair," replied Jackson, bluntly; "but I know those who had; and could bring forward evidence, if you require it. She answered weakly, “I’m fine, John. When the lad is fit to be moved, we’ll bring him home. Something in her voice and manner conveyed an effect of unwonted gravity to him. I heard from David about you only this morning. She forgot her vital hatred of the South Seas; she forgot that McClintock's would not differ a jot from the old island she had for ever left behind her; she forgot all the doctor's lessons and warnings. Certain of my prey, I can afford to wait for it. Then a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined— to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. All the rest is humbug and delicacy.
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