Chapter 55

"If you please," she replied, turning half away, and shrugging her shoulders, while her colour deepened, and her dark eyes gleamed with sudden anger. "It is for one who is even now, perhaps, with a worthless creature, whose society he prefers to yours--haw! haw! the cast-off mistress of a brother officer!" "It is false, sir!" she exclaimed, in an agitated voice, as she turned her flashing eyes full upon him, and drew her tall and glorious figure up like a tragedy queen; "it is false, and cannot be." "Oh, no, it is …