’ She paused, struggling for the word. It would have given me intense satisfaction to have been able to catch a French spy. He was a civil servant of some standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious, nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather carefully finished verse. Strange, demure-looking young woman, with wonderful complexion and eyes, and a style about her, too. She had finally managed to start breaking him down. “He is addressing a meeting of his constituents somewhere,” Annabel answered. He pictured himself visiting the girl in this shabby little home of her aunt’s—she had told him that it was shabby—and he recalled that delicious little smile with which she would surely greet him, a smile which seemed to be a matter of the eyes as well as the lips. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. “Beasts!” But Miss Miniver took no notice of his admission. ” Her aunt answered in a low voice: “I was engaged to him, dear, for seven years, and then he died. Most of my successes in life have been made with a sort of reckless vigor. I’m turning into a big fat cow.
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