Sebastian drew over to her and lifted her chin from her chest. ‘You put that thing away now, missie. "Mother!" she echoed,—"mother! why do you call me by that name?" "Because you are my mother. "Why it is astonishing, certainly," remarked Kneebone, "to find any woman constant—especially to a girlish attachment; but such is the case. He had not noticed the girl particularly when she offered the sandwiches; but in this moment he found her beautiful. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. Gosse had moved forward, his pistol arm out straight, his aim true, the gun cocked. "After all," he said, "this is the safest weapon. "We've no time for any Bedlam scenes now. There we were discussing whether you should have a vote, and I remembered the last occasion we met it was about your prospects of success in the medical profession or as a Government official such as a number of women now are, and all the time my heart was crying out within me, ‘Here is the Queen of your career. He had come to Anna’s rooms from a dinner party, and he was in evening dress. My concept of the reluctant vampire sprung from a rabid obsession with medieval history, especially the pre-Renaissance era of the Black Plague. ” Anna drummed impatiently with her fingers against the arm of her chair.
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