She could not go to him with a preachment against strong drink; she knew from
experience that such a plan would be wasted effort. You don’t happen to know of any one, I
suppose, who wants a nursery governess, or a clerk—without shorthand—or a
tryer-on, or a copyist, or——”
“For Heaven’s sake stop, Miss Pellissier,” he interrupted. He drew her to him and tipped her chin towards him. “Just look that
through, will you. Beyond was a chaise longue, covered with cushions and
shawls laid anyhow across it, together with a discarded tapestry in the making,
and a scattering of woollen threads about it. The only occasional presence other than a skeleton
crew of servants was Sebastianus, who occasionally joined
Gianfrancesco in the hunt for stag, rabbit, or quail, and
then went away for another fortnight. The faithful fellow will never leave me. The
fire—if there was any in him—never made headway against this insistant
demand to know the significance of these manifold inward agitations. "Solid ivory!" he said aloud; "solid from dome to neck! That's James Boyle in
the family group.
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