He forgot Annabel’s idle attempts at love-making, all the cul-de-sac gallantry of the moment. The struggles of the wounded man were desperate—so desperate, that in his agony he overset the table, and, in the confusion, tore off the cloth, and disclosed a face horribly mutilated, and streaming with blood. The spinsters—who on the morrow would vanish out of the girl's life for ever—had already left their imprint upon her imagination. “I’ve broken off my engagement,” she said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and found her heart thumping in her neck. He is not in a state of mind to bear it. And Suzanne, even that she has behaved to me not at all like a mother, would also not have said. The general had little doubt he was going to be asked to provide for the fellow as well as for his legitimate descendant. There was something markedly and deliberately liberal-minded in his manner in all their encounters. They had not proceeded far when a low moan was heard. Manned by a couple of watermen, who rowed with great swiftness, this wherry dashed through the current in the track of the fugitive, of whom it was evidently in pursuit, and upon whom it perceptibly gained. And the infant, in all probability, would have been snatched from its preserver, if a posse of the watch (sent out to maintain order and protect property) had not opportunely arrived, and by a vigorous application of their halberts dispersed his persecutors, and set him at liberty. This was just what he needed. That was an admission all right. But now Ann Veronica knew what was the matter with her. "Thank you," she said, and left the office.
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