Gerald smiled and excused himself with the Poussaint girl, whose mouth
pinched together as she threw a dagger glance at the voluptuous Madame
Valade. Later, she
understood his reasons; and it had now become habit. ’
‘No, but you’ve made up for it since. "I must see him to-night. Whatever he wrote he was: he became this or that character, he suffered or
prospered equally. Try your luck with Jarvis Remenham—if you will. You don’t know
about Mary because you live in Kent. But for him she might have been
alive and happy. ’ She spoke with difficulty, holding down
the rising emotion that threatened to overwhelm her. On this side of the
canal she has no place to go. ’
Saling coughed. “It is a night of endings,” she murmured to herself. In one angle of the room stood a disused fire-place, with a rusty
grate and broken chimney-piece; in the other there was a sort of box, contrived
between the wall and the boards, that looked like an apology for a cupboard.
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