"
"Allow me to offer you a glass of usquebaugh, my dear," said Kneebone, turning
from him, and regarding Edgeworth Bess with a stare so impertinent, that even
that not over-delicate young lady summoned up a blush. Shy,
grateful in her loneliness for this unexpected attention, she had listened. She did not open
the Bible but laid it on the edge of the bed, knelt and rested her forehead upon
the worn leather cover. She agreed entirely with her
brother. One realized indeed then
where the differences lay; the tender curves about Anna’s mouth transformed
into hard sharp lines in Annabel’s, the eyes of one, truthful and frank, the other’s
more beautiful but with less expression—windows lit with dazzling light, but
through which one saw—nothing. The unknown, previously so attractive, now presented another
face—blank. ”
“All the more reason why she shouldn’t get herself talked about. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew,
could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the
almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. But, as soon as he perceived who it was, he roused himself, and
glared fiercely at the intruder from under his bent brows. They fell in a
diapason of smashes. ’
Melusine jumped.
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