And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom he had just left. "A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. 5. He looked at her for a moment in a puzzled sort of way. Everything in the world to live for!—fame that he could not reap, love that he must not take! What was all this pother about hell as a future state? By and by things began to stir on the table: little invisible things. He smothered a laugh. But all of that was forgotten. The action steadied him; and there was a phase of irony, too, that helped. Speedily recovering himself, however, he rejoined, with forced calmness, "You are mistaken, Sir. "Good gracious! so I do," exclaimed his amiable consort.
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