Altiora Peto Author:Laurence Oliphant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Original Publisher: W. Blackwood Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illus... more »trations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " Why, Hannah," I said, thunderstruck, for I could scarcely believe my eyes, " who have you been writing to?" " Mr Clymer," she replied calmly. CHAPTER XII. FLIGHT AND PURSUIT. On the following morning the three girls and Hannah, attended by Hetherington and Alderney as escort, started for Versailles, and the same afternoon, the Baroness called on Mrs Clymer, to pacify the outraged sensibilities of that lady. She found Lord Sark with her, which rendered the explanation somewhat embarrassing. " You can't think, my dear Mrs Clymer," she said, " how distressed I was on hearing from Altiora of her foolish conduct yesterday. I could not lose a moment in coming to ask you to forgive her for her presumption. I can't think where the child has picked up all her ridiculous ideas. I hope, dear Lord Sark, you will make allowances for what must have seemed to you most unmaidenly and indelicate behaviour on her part, and that it will not affect our pleasant relations together. I have sent the child away with herAmerican friends to spend a few days at Versailles and St Germains, and by the time she comes back I shall take care to put matters on such a footing, that any recurrence of such conduct shall be impossible." Lord Sark was about to speak, but Mrs Clymer was too well aware of the danger of allowing any deprecatory utterances on his part to give him time. At the same time, she perceived that her only chance of keeping h...« less