Chapter XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR JOHN Sir John looked from one to the other of the two sisters. But the current rumblings of internal discontent across the Channel were productive of unease in certain quarters. He saw, without any particular regret, that this year he would have to forego the junket; but there would be ample compensation in the study of these queer youngsters. She was very pale, and there was a look of fear in her eyes. She only weighed about 100 pounds and she was about 5’9”, much taller than you and I. He had already spoken his mind on the folly of allowing a clearly dangerous female to escape a second time. ‘You said?’ ‘Mrs Sindlesham, your great-aunt, miss. Skirting the noble gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,) the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype, in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry, especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place, by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. I thought then perhaps you didn’t care, that you were like so many of them. . ’ A strangled sob escaped her as his thumb dug cruelly into the soft flesh of her wrist. ” “You are very kind,” Anna said.
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