” She replied with a rehearsed answer, “I was told that my real mother died the day I was born. Ever since he came here, three months ago, he has been the life and soul of the place; and now the death warrant has arrived, instead of being cast down, as most men would be, and as all others are, he's gayer than ever. Before retracing his steps, however, he allowed his gaze to range over the vast and beautiful prospect spread out beneath him, which is now hidden, from the traveller's view by the high walls of the General Cemetery, and can, consequently, only be commanded from the interior of that attractive place of burial,—and which, before it was intersected by canals and railroads, and portioned out into hippodromes, was exquisite indeed. ‘I am saying so,’ protested Gerald mildly. Wild, he asserted, had robbed him of a large sum of money, and till it was restored he would never plead. She hadn't meant to ask anything for herself. “I don’t think she will,” she said. " "Good enough for me. ‘But if there is one, how in the world did this mystery lady of yours know of it?’ ‘That, Lucy, is precisely the point that has been exercising my mind,’ Gerald said, turning his eyes once more to the group of French exiles in the alcove. She was unusually pale, and her eyes were brilliant. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small, whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and her bags. . ’ ‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering comment from the captain.
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