Standing before a mirror set on a dresser between the windows, two hands frozen in the act of adjusting a wide-brimmed hat on her head, stood a lady in a dark riding habit, her startled features turned towards the door. She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. What would happen when confronted by the actual? He was young; she was also young and physically beautiful—his lawful wife. ‘Come, Jacques, mon pauvre,’ she uttered, and reached for the lad again, hardly aware of the muted sounds of running feet and much banging and crashing beyond the secret door. "Damnation!" exclaimed Wild with a snarl, that displayed his glistening fangs to the farthest extremity of his mouth, "I'm not to be trifled with thus. "Oh, easily enough," rejoined the other. ’ ‘I’ve a good mind to leave the pair of you to it and take myself off,’ threatened his junior, marching across the room and snatching up a decanter. "I was just thinking of you Jack. I went to the theatre that night. The same old lines and verses, over and over, until there had come times when shrieking would have relieved her. She sat in a chair in the parlour and regarded the darkening sky through the small casement window. Her head dangled unnaturally for an instant, unleashed from its moorings, then sank to join her husband’s on the floor. She just sat and told me that was her arrangement. " At this moment, Rachel and Blueskin returned. ’ ‘Prudence,’ repeated Gerald unguardedly.
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