"Old Van told me if he grew up he would be hanged. It was an odd room, used principally for the reception of guests and visiting dignitaries, packed from end to end with ill-assorted sofas and padded chairs. . That is what my mother used to call me. He gave you a poison. One swift glance about the room, and a sensation of grim foreboding swept through him. 1715. This is not honourable. Beautiful sculptures of sugar and almond paste decorated the long tables, delicate replicas of flowers and miniature animals, even a small Palazzo sculpted from cakes graced the table. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. He had just arrived from Manchester, whence he had been summoned by that treacherous thief-taker.
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