One of the things that most surprised him in her was her capacity for blind
obedience. 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. ‘Small wonder in a way that he found hisself consolation elsewhere. Only first you must find the lantern and light
it again and leave it here, near the door, for me to find. I'm not
interested in him. Do
you know the story of Orpheus? He was a musician who
followed his damned wife into Hell to bring her back?
He was one of us, I believe. One reason,
perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in
the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was
favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent. “Because you used to be my friend, Lucy, and now I
don’t get to see you anymore unless I can get into your
house. It is Anna again who stands between me and
ruin.
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