“You know about my
scandalous past?”
“Very little. But in his presence a wall of
diffidence and timidity encompassed her. You'll find me at supper. And you
started out forthwith to fight the world and be a citizen on your own basis?” He
came forward again and folded his hands under him on his desk. More strange stories were told of
it than of any other house in London. ‘How did you know that Mary was
his daughter?’
Gerald hesitated. ‘How did you guess?’
‘I guessed as soon as you said this was your house. And now for the fawney—
the ring I mean. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her
complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably,
by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes
which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely
more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. She yielded it without protest, as though
unconsciously. These sham ideals and
advanced notions. Not conceiving that his sister—feeble as she was, and yielding as she
had ever shown herself to his wishes, whether expressed or implied—would
depart without consulting him, he was equally surprised and enraged to hear the
servants busied in transporting her to the carriage.
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