Edgeworth Bess wore a scarlet tabby negligée,—a sort of undress, or sack, then
much in vogue,—which suited her to admiration, and upon her head had what
was called a fly-cap, with richly-laced lappets. Wood, regarding her husband with
a glance of vindictive triumph. She pulled away
from him, placing her fingers on his lips for a moment. She was already a little prepared by her discursive reading and discussion
under the Widgett influence for ideas and “movements,” though
temperamentally perhaps she was rather disposed to resist and criticise than
embrace them. I
had a perfect shoal of callers. Gradually
McClintock shifted the burden to Spurlock's shoulders and retired among his
books and music rolls. On the way he
confessed. "And when I further tell you," continued Jack, "that, after yourself and my
mother, I am the next heir to the estates of my grandfather, Sir Montacute
Trenchard, you will perhaps own that my caution is sufficiently disinterested. Cathy rushed out from the kitchen, all smiles, with
Lucy behind her. When my father died, and we were left
alone in Jersey, I was quite a long time deciding whether I would go in for
singing professionally or try painting. Over these hung levels, bevels, squares, and other instruments
of measurement. But this wild scheme was speedily abandoned; and, nerved by despair,
the carpenter resolved to hazard an attempt, from the execution, almost from the
contemplation, of which he had hitherto shrunk.
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