"I've counted ten coffins so far. When the paroxysm passed,
he was forced to lean against the window-jamb for support. "But, if I should not return, take this purse to
Edgeworth Bess. ”
“Oh, well!” he said, a little doubtfully, “it’s just a phase,” and bent down and
rested his hand on her shoulder for a moment, with his heart beating and his
nerves a-quiver. ”
She stared before her, trying to keep back a rush of tears. "
Thames Darrell was, indeed, a youth of whom a person of far greater worldly
consequence than the worthy carpenter might have been justly proud. Sometimes I
tremble, Anna, to think how near I came to passing through life without a single
glimpse, a moment’s revelation of this greatest and most awful of mysteries, the
mystery of primaeval nature. “I thought I was just up against Morningside Park and father, but it’s the
whole order of things—the whole blessed order of things. My mind is full of ideas and images that I have been cherishing
and accumulating—dreams of travelling side by side, of lunching quietly
together in some jolly restaurant, of moonlight and music and all that side of life,
of seeing you dressed like a queen and shining in some brilliant throng—mine;
of your looking at flowers in some old-world garden, our garden—there are
splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite
within my means. The young
lady—if she had come in here at all—had vanished. At the bottom of the trunk I found two of my mother's
dresses. ” He said
cruelly as she gazed at him in fear.
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