"At length, I have my wish," continued Mrs. But at the beginning of the affray, when he thought every one was too much occupied with his own concerns to remark his absence, he slipped out of the room, not for the purpose of avoiding the engagement (for cowardice was not one of his failings), but because he had another object in view. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. “I saw him stagger and sink down, and the pistol was smoking still in my hand. . "And now, in return for your liberality, I'll inform you of a secret with which it is important you should be acquainted. "Who took it thence?" "Thames Darrell; the boy at your side. I’m in a mess—a nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess! “Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess! “Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things? “Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!” She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. Do not waste time in vain regrets, but let us remove the body, that we may fulfil her last injunctions. She could smell his cologne underneath his collar, or perhaps his aftershave. " The hint was not lost upon Wood. She wished her father and aunt would not enjoy their dinner with such quiet determination. He was not particularly grateful for the present situation.
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