In stature, he was short and stumpy; in person, corpulent; and in countenance, sleek, snub-nosed, and demure. Courtlaw found himself ushered without questions into Annabel’s long low drawing-room, fragrant with flowers and somewhat to his surprise, crowded with guests. “Happened! Oh, many things,” she declared indolently. ’ ‘I think you understand me very well. He was just getting cross about your being late for dinner—you know his way—when it came. It is useless to trace out her miserable career; though I can easily do so if you require it. Gifts came from Florence: rubies and emeralds, a beautiful statue of Santa Maria for their garden grotto, a gorgeous silk tapestry of a hunting scene that alone made the price of her dowry look paltry. Spare him!—pity me!" With this she arose, and, taking up the infant, was about to proceed down stairs, when she was alarmed by hearing the street-door opened, and the sound of heavy footsteps entering the house. Her hair touched water, becoming like the seaweed in its velvet slickness. A message was dispatched from Florence that she was to again receive her future husband. “It’s a way of avoiding explanations.
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