On the next morning—Sunday—the day
on which he expected his mother's funeral to take place, he set out along the
Harrow Road. ’
She pronounced it with a French inflexion, but Gerald understood her to mean
the English name he knew. She twisted her fingers tightly. Who
could guarantee a safer existence outside Florence?
That Sebastian seemed to have a weird immunity to
the Pestilence was a trait that went unquestioned,
unanswered. ‘How did you know that Mary was
his daughter?’
Gerald hesitated. A sprinkling of callow youths,
and a couple of pronounced young Jews, who were talking loudly together in
some unintelligible jargon of the City. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported
to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who
so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of
accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other
phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none
entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering
dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect
of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is
in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be
acquainted. Not a breath was drawn. ” He
said to her. "By all means," returned Wood; "don't delay an instant. But here it is
China. Kneebone and his Friends. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of
the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the
bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these
circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination. He returned figuratively to his bed—the
bed he had made for himself and in which he must for ever lie.
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