The Painted Fan by Elizabeth Aston

Author:Elizabeth Aston [Aston, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477876695
Published: 2014-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

Vere felt sorry for her, profoundly sorry for her and angry with Standish, and this surprised him. The lachrymose affections of young ladies were not really of the slightest interest to him, and he was unused to being touched in this way. She was trying hard to keep a woebegone expression from her face, and she was making a reasonable job of it. Damn Standish for making such a mess of things. Of course he couldn’t marry the girl, but why did he have to be so particular in his attentions and then drop her as suddenly as he had taken her up? It would have been so much better manners and kinder to gradually ease himself out of a situation in which there was no future. He should have known better.

He glanced across the room to where Henrietta Portway was turning over the pages of a book, pretending an interest he doubted she felt. “I believe you were here with a friend. I was going to take a turn in the park; perhaps you both would be good enough to accompany me.”

Henrietta, applied to, was delighted to walk in the park with so elegant and eligible a gentleman as Mr. Vere. She was somewhat in awe of him, but it seemed to her a good idea to remove Anna from here and give her time for her flustered spirits to return to some semblance of tranquillity.

She engaged Mr. Vere in conversation as they walked down Bond Street and crossed a busy Piccadilly and entered Green Park, and by then, both she and Mr. Vere were relieved to see, Anna had regained control of herself, and although no one could call her happy, the dreadfully stricken look had gone.

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