She went from
period to period exactly as she would have read prose; so that sense and music
were equally balanced. And a time will come, Veronica, mark my
words, a time will come when you will bless me for my firmness to-night. 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. You shall lie upon your back; your head shall be
covered; and your feet shall be bare. ‘Left to yourself, my girl, you may not have any affairs. Did you warn Frith?’
‘Yes. The walls
were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of
hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own
audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place
of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid
across joint-stools. Running his hand hastily over it, he was startled to find it one
complicated mass of bolts and bars. It was from Brendon.
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