” Chapter III ANNA? OR ANNABEL? Sir John was wholly unable to understand the laugh and semi-ironical cheer which greeted his entrance to the smoking-room of the English Club on the following evening. The vestry was perhaps the only room in the place, except her allotted curtained off portion of the dormitory chamber that served for her cell—and she could not scandalise the nuns by having a man in there, be he never so much a servant—where Melusine could be sure of privacy. “I confess it. Sheppard," said Wood, glancing round the chamber, as he expanded his palms before the scanty flame. Rebellious and resentful, Melusine decided there and then that she would do exactly that, come what may. ‘Certainly I am not a nun. I tell you this child would have been strangled. You don’t want to miss the sport. An ugly flush stained his cheeks. Annabel Pellissier was not like the others, he said. Mrs. Come, make yourself scarce. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins.
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