There came to O'Higgins the discouraging knowledge that upon the heels of a wonderful chase—blindman's buff in the dark—would come a stretch of dull inaction. "And equally easy to prove it," replied Jack, giving him the paper he had abstracted from Wild. ‘Quick, Gérard. ‘Come along. But you couldn't. The unknown, previously so attractive, now presented another face—blank. Giles's, and other places—but I've nowhere seen any one who came up so completely to my notion of a first-rate housebreaker as the individual before us. Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as preoccupied with them. As she went on, the story began to sound more and more like a recitation. He opened it—just off-hand, and then when he saw what it was he hit at the table and sent his soup spoon flying and splashing on to the tablecloth. The supreme effect for Ann Veronica was its surpassing relevance; it made every other atmosphere she knew seem discursive and confused. Sir John and Annabel seated themselves at one of them, and the proprietor himself, a small dark-visaged man, radiant with smiles, came hurrying up, followed by a waiter. The clouds were nearly black with rain, threatening to spill sleet in daggers and torrents. She had time in the afternoons to do crewelwork and embroidery, no longer occupied by the constant spinning of wool.
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