Download The Snowball By Stanley J. Weyman Pdf book free online – from The Snowball By Stanley J. Weyman Pdf book; I stood a moment, but finding she still took no notice of us, I beckoned to one of the servants, and bade him tell his mistress a gentleman would speak with her.
The man went with the message; but she sent him off with a flea in his ear, and screamed at him so violently that for a moment I thought she was mad. Then it appeared that the object of her attention was a door at the side of the hall; for, stopping suddenly in her walk, she went up to it, and struck it passionately with her hands.
“Come out!” she cried. “Come out, you villain!”
Restraining the King, I went forward myself, and, saluting her politely, begged a word with her apart, thinking she would recognize me.
Her answer, however, showed that she did not. “No!” she cried, waving me off, in the utmost excitement. “No; you will not get me away–I know you. You are as bad one as the other.” Then turning again to the door, she continued, “Come out! Do you hear! Come out! I’ll have no more of your intrigues and your Hallots!”The Snowball By Stanley J. Weyman Pdf
I pricked up my ears at the name “But, Madame,” I said, “one moment.”
“Begone!” she retorted, turning on me so wrathfully that I fairly recoiled before her. “I shall stay here till I drop; but I will have him out and expose him. There shall be an end of his precious plots and his Hallots if I have to go to the King!”
Words so curiously à propos could not but recall to my mind the confusion into which my mention of Du Hallot had thrown the secretary earlier in the day. And since they seemed also to be consistent with the warning conveyed to me, and indeed to explain it, they should have corroborated my worst suspicions. But a sense of something unreal and fantastic, with