“What were you doing outside Miss Pellissier’s flat to-night? You were looking
at her windows. The life of a girl presented itself to her as something happy and heedless and
unthinking, yet really guided and controlled by others, and going on amidst
unsuspected screens and concealments. ‘Well, that depends. “Come upstairs,” she said, “and I will show you your room. “No, the only person I told before tonight was my
mother and father. If you can do any good with him, it's more than we can. One was
in the Indian Civil Service and one in the rapidly developing motor business. “Do tell me all about it. He must be more or less of an age
with this man. If, when he returned, he blew out the light, she would go to
bed; but if the light burned on for any length of time, she would go silently to the
study curtain to learn if his agony was still upon him. “I just wanted you to see that the
time will come when I must leave you, and the time is
coming soon. If I’d meant it, my girl, you’d be dead meat. The bed was hard
beyond any experience of hers, the bed-clothes coarse and insufficient, the cell at
once cold and stuffy. "
After narrowly examining the countenance of the sitter, and motioning him with
his pencil into a particular attitude, Sir James Thornhill commenced operations;
and, while he rapidly transferred his lineaments to the canvass, engaged him in
conversation, in the course of which he artfully contrived to draw him into a
recital of his adventures. Sometimes he was obviously irritable and
uncomfortable and unfortunate in his efforts to seem at ease.
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