At last in a street near the Hampstead Road she
hit upon a room that had an exceptional quality of space and order, and a tall
woman with a kindly face to show it. Just one thing more. He folded the garments carefully and replaced them on the
chair. For the fresh and feverish hue of lip which
years ago characterised this feature, was now substituted a pure and wholesome
bloom, evincing a total change of habits; and, though the coarse character of the
mouth remained, in some degree, unaltered, it was so modified in expression,
that it could no longer be accounted a blemish. The girl only smiled at him
serenely, but she laid her hand for a moment quietly upon his. One marked difference
between the poor outcast, who, oppressed by poverty, and stung by shame, had
sought temporary relief in the stupifying draught,—that worst "medicine of a
mind diseased,"—and those of the same being, freed from her vices, and restored
to comfort and contentment, if not to happiness, by a more prosperous course of
events, was exhibited in the mouth. Man's fate is in his own hands. "If you are in earnest, Thames," she replied, with a look of gentle reproach, "you
are very foolish; and, if in jest, very cruel.
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