Grandmothers and grandfathers and uncles and aunts … to love and to coddle
lonely little girls. “All right. She had,
by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and
her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the
deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of
the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts
defying the elements. Annabel set her teeth hard, and turned fiercely towards Anna. Annabel was born
soulless, a human butterfly, if ever there was one. ”
Drummond shook his head in melancholy fashion. I’ve
bored you or something. The next moment, however,
he was picked up, and set upon his feet by a person who, having witnessed the
accident, flew across the road to his assistance. She
had imagined that prisons were white-tiled places, reeking of lime-wash and
immaculately sanitary. Thieves and pickpockets are his constant
companions. They’re all
wonderful cooks. While he was dragged along in the manner just described, Thames looked
around to ascertain, if possible, where he was; for he did not put entire faith in
Jonathan's threat of sending him to the round-house, and apprehensive of
something even worse than imprisonment.
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