“In Paris your sister appeared to me to be a charming student of frivolity. “They have no plans for us. ‘If you had met her, you’d understand. “I meant it. Unless—’ Something clicked in his mind and he stared at his friend without seeing him. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. It would be easy enough for me to write an eloquent letter about something else. ‘Ah, yes? To what do I pretend?’ ‘That,’ Gerald said regretfully, ‘I have not yet been able to fathom. Incursions were often made upon its territories by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important caption could be effected. ’ The fellow seized on this. Jack, whose clothes were covered with dust, and whose face was deathly pale from his recent exertion, looked more like a phantom than a living person. Then a roar of hisses. You’d think he wanted to meet the wretch again. As soon as dinner was over she went into the kitchen and devoted herself to compiling a tray—not a tray merely of halfcooled dinner things, but a specially prepared “nice” tray, suitable for tempting any one. “I’m d——d if I understand this,” he said thoughtfully.
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