" The caution was scarcely uttered, when the door opened, and Jack Sheppard presented himself. He took the first step toward the stairs, and met the restraining hand of McClintock. “It is a very pleasant place,” said Ann Veronica, biting a rhododendron stalk through, and with that faint shadow of a smile returning to her lips. . Have you anything to ask me?” Ann Veronica readjusted her mind hastily. "Mother! dear mother!" cried Jack, folding her to his breast. “I suppose I ought to congratulate you,” he said. “Still, since it is better to tell you, Sir John is very much in earnest, but his respectability is something altogether too overpowering. “And of course you are my niece just as Annabel is, although I am sorry to learn that your conduct has been much less discreet than hers. “You belong to me,” he said fiercely; “the marriage certificate is in my pocket. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom he had just left. I am an educated Chinese, and I resent the imputations against my race. It is a very small affair, after all, and you can pay me back if you will. ‘You are an avid reader, I take it.
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