” He was slightly tipsy. By-the-bye, do you recognize that?” Anna looked and gasped. So, in broken, rather breathless phrases, he told his story; and when he had done, he laid his arms upon the table and bent his head to them. She had not at first the power for concealment. Her eyes were perhaps a little brighter than usual, the firelight played about her hair, there seemed to him to be a sudden softening of the straight firm mouth. An uncomfortable silence followed. ‘I know her, ma’am, but I know next to nothing of her story. I am no use for a clerk, because I do not understand shorthand. I do swear. It was a refusal of expediency, he said, and not an absolute refusal. 175 “Before you tell me the whole story,” she emphasized the penultimate word, “just let me do something for you. It became suddenly glaringly apparent to her that it was impossible to return fifteen pounds or any sum less than twenty pounds to Ramage—absolutely impossible.
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