Jane--Our Strang
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共 54 题- JANE--OUR STRANGER
- JANE--OUR STRANGER
- A NOVEL
- AUTHOR OF “THE ROMANTIC WOMAN”
- LONDON
- WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD.
- PART I
- II
- III
- And Aunt Minnie would exclaim--
- IV
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- XI
- XII
- I came back to Claire’s delicate face and brooding eyes.
- XIII
- PART II
- II
- I stopped her.
- III
- I felt her watching me closely.
- IV
- I rubbed off the lip salve and took off the ear-rings. “Is that better?”
- I did not quite know what I meant then, but I know now.
- I never saw her again.
- I laughed. “You talk, Aunt, as if Blaise’s friends weren’t proper.”
- Some one was saying--
- I was annoyed and rose and moved to the door.
- VI
- I tried to interrupt.
- I was startled. “Do something?”
- I pondered. “After all, I belong to the family.”
- I stammered. “I don’t know, I suppose so. It seems to me human.”
- I lifted my face from her curls.
- VII
- I found things at the flat in an indescribable state of disorder.
- I broke in saying that I didn’t believe a word of it.
- I paid no attention to it.
- In March Fan began to lose her nerve. She said to me one day--
- VIII
- I was very angry. “Jinny, you make me ashamed.”
- I had failed--I had failed.
- I burst out laughing, but she eyed me gravely.
- I ought to have stayed with Jinny. That was my job.
- IX
- I was startled. I stammered. “My ideas--?”
- I laughed and said, “But I don’t think you can.”
- I asked him to tea, and he put us into our car.
- I do not know what she meant--I only know that I left her alone to die.
- I stumbled to my feet and left the room.
- THE END