Thankfully, he seemed pleased the
moment he saw her face, which her mother had made her
wash for weeks with the pulp of apples, orange water, and
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extract of borage among other things. “My sister and I,” she said slowly, “have seen very little of each other lately. “I don’t see what else I could have said,” he remarked. The girl regarded him
with the face of a Sphinx. Dizzily, she
grabbed at the mantel for support and, resting her head on her hands, paid no
heed to a betraying sound behind her—until an unexpected arm encircled her. "No; we never had one;
at least, I never saw it. They've heard quite enough for my purpose," he
muttered, as his orders were obeyed, and the domestics excluded. Once in, the constable's manner
appeared totally changed. He liked to draw her in, and
she did her best to talk. ”
They were in the elder Widgett girl’s bedroom; Hetty was laid up, she said,
with a sprained ankle, and a miscellaneous party was gossiping away her tedium.
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