Notwithstanding her emaciation, her features still retained something of a
pleasing expression, and might have been termed beautiful, had it not been for
that repulsive freshness of lip denoting the habitual dram-drinker; a freshness in
her case rendered the more shocking from the almost livid hue of the rest of her
complexion. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. But
the Remenhams in the days of Charles the First, with the need for an escape
route from Cromwell’s increasingly victorious forces, had cut a trapdoor through
its floor into the cellars below, and thence hewn the long rough passageway that
led underground right outside the boundary of the estate. I was
supposed to do the same, but I didn’t. ”
“Well, you see, something has happened at home. ” He leaned to kiss her
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and she returned his kiss, which she drew out, savored,
and tried to memorize. She flew up from her stool and faced
the door. "Gadzooks! I thought something was coming
on; for when I looked at the weather-glass an hour ago, it had sunk lower than I
ever remember it. ‘And it is me you dare accuse? It is yourself
you should arrest. But we've got to cook up
some kind of a story to protect her.
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