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They talked until midnight most nights. The nurse sent for
him as soon as she saw that you were conscious. She lived, he noted, very carelessly. “I don’t think you see,” she replied, with tears on her cheeks, and her brows
knitting, “how it shames and, ah!—disgraces me—AH TISHU!”
She put down the tray with a concussion on her toilet-table. I didn't
understand then, but I do now. Women and
men had always flocked to him, covetous of his
knowledge, his riches, and if all else failed, his carnal
expertise. A disconcerting gray eye that had a
mystifying depth. “Well, I have said what I had to say, stumblingly and badly, and baldly. Ennison listened, and his eyes glowed. Nine years ago, I worked in this very house—had a kind indulgent
master, whom I robbed—twice robbed, at your instigation, villain; a mistress,
whom you have murdered; a companion, whose friendship I have for ever
forfeited; a mother, whose heart I have well-nigh broken. She drifted back into
the welcoming arms of sleep, feeling herself surrounded
in silk. So I ran away, blindly, knowing nothing of the world outside. "
"If you will not take me, I'll find some guide who will. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge.
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