He would get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint at a thousand devotions were she but to command him. He seldom spoke, and drank with a persistence that was sinister. Sheppard, passing her hands over his face, and gazing at him with a look that made him shudder. White became conscious of a distinct sense of uneasiness, and showed it in her face. "There it is!" cried Sir James, eagerly. The girl stood with her hands behind her back, sulky, resolute, and intelligent, a strand of her black hair over one eye and looking more than usually delicate-featured, and more than ever like an obdurate child. Sheppard, passionately,—"he has my boundless gratitude, and devotion. She had to wait some minutes in an outer office, wherein three young men of spirited costume and appearance regarded her with ill-concealed curiosity and admiration. “Sit down,” he said, and perused—“perused” is the word for it—for some moments.
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