He
walked in her direction. At a sign from Ah Cum, official custodian of the sightseers, the polechair coolies pressed toward the left and halted. Suddenly he burst into wild
laughter; but equally as suddenly something strangled the sound in his throat. The discussion
wandered, and was punctuated with bread and butter. ”
“What is there to be feared?” he asked her quietly. I
didn't expect you home before that hour, Sir. A constant attendant at court, he had the mortification to see every one
promoted but himself, and thus bewails his ill-luck. A loud buzz of curiosity circulated among the domestics; some of whom—
especially the females—leaned forward to obtain a peep at the culprit. The wind blew in fitful gusts, and scattered the yellow leaves
from the elms and horse-chestnuts. ”
“You are not going to that ball! You are not going out of this house in that getup!”
Ann Veronica tried yet more earnestly to treat him, as she would treat any
man, with an insistence upon her due of masculine respect.
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