[Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link book
Man and Wife

CHAPTER THE SECOND
18/25

All right! I'll play." "Oh! smoke by all means!" retorted Blanche.

"I shall choose somebody else.

I won't have you!" The honorable young gentleman looked unaffectedly relieved.

The petulant young lady turned her back on him, and surveyed the guests at the other extremity of the summer-house.
"Who shall I choose ?" she said to herself.
A dark young man--with a face burned gipsy-brown by the sun; with something in his look and manner suggestive of a roving life, and perhaps of a familiar acquaintance with the sea--advanced shyly, and said, in a whisper: "Choose me!" Blanche's face broke prettily into a charming smile.

Judging from appearances, the dark young man had a place in her estimation peculiarly his own.
"You!" she said, coquettishly.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books