Guy Earlscourt's Wife — page 206: what you’re looking at

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, = m ~< 194 “A New Way to Pay Old Debts.” girl? She got up with a prevoking smile on her face, and waiked straight out of the room.” In the doworway she paused, “T have only one request to make,” she said, still with that provoking smile; “please don’t feed me on bread and water, L shouldn’t like to ewe any thinner, and do be kind to poor ttle Pandore (her poodle). For the rest, Sir Vane, I hear but to obey.” She went up to her rooms. She had three on the suniry southern side-——bedroom, dressing-room and _ sitting-room. She glanced around. Heaps of books and magazines were everywhere, heaps of Berlin wool, and beadwork, heaps of musie and a piano. She rang the bell, and when her maid came she peeped out through a crevice in the door. “jane,” she said, with solemnity, “I’m a prisoner here, and to prevent the possibility of my escape I am going to lock myself in! You will fetch me my meals, and when you want anything, Jane, you will rap, you know, and tell me through the keyhole.” Sir Vane had followed her and heard every word of this whimsical speech. “What is to be done w.th such a girl as that?’ the baronet demanded of his sister; “she is afraid of nothing-—imprison- ment, solitude—nothing, [ say. Hear her now!” Miss Lisle was seated at her piano, and her high, sweet singing echoed through the house. “Paulina Lisle is dangerous,” Mrs. Galbraith said, with emphasis; “that girl is capable of anything when fally aroused.” Mrs. Galbraith was right. She and’ her brother were speedily to learn of what Paulina Lisle was capabte! CHAPTER VII. “A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS.” It was the twentieth of December. Franeis, Lord Montalien, rose from the luxurious dinner iz his bachelor apartments, prepared by a first-rate French artist, and walked into his reception- room. Lord Montalien’s lodgings Were on the sunny side of St. James street, and rather more luxuriov:, if possible, than the apartments of a young duchess. He had but come from a funeral a few hours be- fere, the funeral. of his vich grandaunt, Miss Earlscourt. After the funeral the will had been read in the lawyer’s office the will that, 0 the utter amaze of everybody save the lav Th mc Wis alii Wit: tuk of the his face Mm :t} hin hin brot nob tha ée Hay pat thou heri ‘ A eT comicbooks.com