”
“It was behind the Place de Vendome, on the other side from the Ritz. Wood's daughter,—to
whom, I've heard tell, he was attached years ago,—was brought up, his courage
forsook him altogether, and he trembled, and could scarcely stand. I can decide for myself. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. ”
He fancied that she was yielding, but her eyes fell once more upon that fatal
envelope, and her tone when she spoke was colder than ever. "
"Dear me!" sympathised Mrs. "Your ladyship has never been well since you married Sir Cecil," rejoined Mrs. White calls them. A woman has a perfect right to
choose her own husband, but Nigel seemed to think that there was something a
little mysterious about your treatment of him. The new and the old cancelled out;
his daughters became quasi-independent dependents—which is absurd. “Often,” he repeated, a little heavily. Larry would be up soon. . The ladder was now within reach.
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