’ He strode to the fireplace behind the leather-topped desk and addressed his own reflection in the mirror, wagging an admonitory finger in his own face. She could hear the raucous laughter and bad music below. That last year in Paris, when Annabel and she had lived in different worlds, had often been a nightmare to her. Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit— the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male. “He wants to settle something on you, I believe. ‘Now then, missie. Young and old were dressed in their gayest apparel; and it was evident from the smiles that lighted up every countenance, from the roguish looks of the younger swains, and the demure expression of several pretty rustic maidens, that a ceremony, which never fails to interest all classes,—a wedding,—was about to take place. “It is concerning—our future relations,” Sir John pronounced ponderously. If she delayed a day she would delay two days, if she delayed two days she would delay a week, and after a week things would be adjusted to submission forever. The house was full of aunts, uncles, and cousins meandering about, stuffed until their seams and zippers were bursting. “She cannot be aware,” he continued, “that she is making herself conspicuous. But don’t run away with the idea that I’m hanging out for a wife at last, because I’m not. It was quite an unexpected pleasure to meet you and your worthy father. But he has since acquitted you of any share in it. "When in France, I heard from the Marshal that his brother had perished in London on the night of the Great Storm.
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