A few minutes later Sir John left the room. She hesitated in answering the door, her violin still crooked underneath her chin. ‘I thought—I thought I saw my—my husband. Here, where every element of her surroundings was tawdry and commonplace, and before this young man of vulgar origin and appearance, it was striking. "They shall not harm you, my love!" she exclaimed. The visitor was the hotel manager, who respectfully announced that the doctor was ready for her. Humph. Brendon told him the name of a distant restaurant and sprang in by her side. The name of this damsel was Edgeworth Bess; and, as her fascinations will not, perhaps, be found to be without some influence upon the future fortunes of her boyish admirer, we have thought it worth while to be thus particular in describing them. It was, Ann Veronica felt, as a sip or so of that remarkable blend warmed her blood, just the sort of thing that her aunt would not approve, to be lunching thus, tete-a-tete with a man; and yet at the same time it was a perfectly innocent as well as agreeable proceeding. She recalled that day of the typhoon and the sloop crashing on the outer reefs. She touched bow to strings, playing a fifth. But he had scarcely advanced a step, when he was felled to the ground by a blow from the powerful arm of Kneebone, who, instantly possessing himself of a pistol, levelled it at Jackson's head.
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