She was aware of the body of the court, of clerks seated at a black
table littered with papers, of policemen standing about stiffly with expressions of
conscious integrity, and a murmuring background of the heads and shoulders of
spectators close behind her. For four hours he had
shifted his own troubles to the shoulders of these imaginative characters. ‘Something for you, Lucy?’ he asked, interrupting a heated argument that had
obviously been in progress for some little time before their arrival. "
"Oh!" Ruth laughed softly. She barely heard a word that Martin or
Brown said, until Martin’s voice chimed. Spurlock sat limply, his arms hanging. Edgeworth Bess wore a scarlet tabby negligée,—a sort of undress, or sack, then
much in vogue,—which suited her to admiration, and upon her head had what
was called a fly-cap, with richly-laced lappets.
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