"Ja, ja, Muntmeester," said the Hollander, shaking his head in reply;—"very bad —very. He had only to recall this fact (which he did in each crisis) to erect a barrier she could not go around or over. The air, perfumed with the delicious fragrance of the new-mown grass, was vocal with the melodies of the birds; the thick foliage of the trees was glistening in the sunshine; all nature seemed happy and rejoicing; but, above all, the serene Sabbath stillness reigning around communicated a calm to her wounded spirit. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock, under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally developed. Annabel half filled her glass with wine, and taking a little folded packet from her plate, shook the contents into it. The room in which he was detained—that lately occupied by the Mohocks, who, it appeared, had been allowed to depart,—was calculated to inspire additional apprehension and disgust. “There is no time for that. London, Paris, Rome! There were no hotel labels on the patient's trunk, but there were ship labels; and by these she was able to reconstruct the journey: from New York to Naples, thence to Alexandria; from Port Saïd to Colombo; from Colombo to Bombay; from Calcutta to Rangoon, thence down to Singapore; from Singapore to Hong-Kong. Not a word passed between them. "Only Jack's two wives—Edgeworth Bess and Poll Maggot," replied Austin, laughing. Presently McClintock came in.
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