I wish”— she found she had embarked on a bad sentence—“I wish we needn’t have quarrelled. Michelle was on her like a fly, asking her questions about her past foster homes she did her best to avoid, pretending to be swamped every night with sudden reams of homework and unable to be reached by phone. Wood—and after him came his daughter. The spinsters—who on the morrow would vanish out of the girl's life for ever—had already left their imprint upon her imagination. The leg and wing of a duck were disposed of by this gentleman in a twinkling; a brace of pigeons and a pound of steak followed with equal celerity; and he had just begun to make a fierce assault upon the eggs and ham. ‘But who was he, Gerald?’ ‘A damned condottiere,’ exploded Gerald, forgetting his company. ‘Though we might have done, if a certain addlepated clothhead hadn’t let her get away. Sydney and Brendon vied with one another in their efforts to engage Anna in conversation, and Miss Ellicot, during the momentary lull, deemed it a favourable opportunity to recommence siege operations. He was caressing an idea. " "Who told you this is his portrait?" demanded Trenchard. " "And you whipped the beast? I passed him.
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