His
attraction for her was now written plainly on his freckled
face, revealed by the many drinks he had imbibed. She looked from Anna, who was far
too nice-looking to be travelling about alone, to that reassuring pile of luggage,
and wrinkled her brows thoughtfully. “Dinner is served, m’m,” said the efficient parlor-maid in the archway, and the
worst was over. Her nurse says she may live
some time; but she seems to me to be sinking fast. That dress is thirty
years old, if a day. That’s probably true. “You are magnificent,” she said, “but the steel of your truth is a little
oversharpened. The glance, which he
threw at the door, was singularly expressive of his character: it was a mixture of
alarm, effrontery, and resolution. What can she be? The wife of a country
tradesman, or a duchess? And such a meek little husband too.
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