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You know all this stuff is insured. Sheppard's dress—extremely
neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending
material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and
her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly,
have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. She began to read, and presently she entered another
world, and remained in it for two hours. A militiaman came
belting down the stairs, another leapt from outside the front door, and a third,
stalwart and stolid, came in through the door that led to the rooms to the front of
the house. "And, oh!
forgive me, though I can never forgive myself, for the misery I have caused
you. Wood sank, submissively, into a chair,
while his daughter hastened to execute her arbitrary parent's commission. "
"Ah! Now I can get a perspective. She never questioned the motives of the characters;
she had neither the ability nor the conceit for that; but she could and often did
correct his lapses in colour. "
So saying, he violently shut and locked the door. It was well for him that he had taken his place by Sheppard, as regard for the
latter alone prevented the deadliest missiles being hurled at him. ‘Comment? You have then met this Suzanne?’
The woman turned a deep red. "
"Not for worlds!" exclaimed both ladies together. "
"Why what will she say?" inquired Sheppard. From time to time she would come upon a line of singular beauty or a paragraph
full of haunting music; and these would send her rushing on for something that
never happened.
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