The costume of this
personage was somewhat singular, and might have passed for a masquerading
habit, had not the imperturbable gravity of his demeanour forbidden any such
supposition. If the boy did not love the girl, why the devil had he
dragged her into this marriage?
Spurlock was a bit shaky bodily, but his brain was functioning clearly; and, it
might be added, swiftly—as the brain always acts when confronted by a
perplexing riddle. It needs
cultivating, I think. . Ill-drawn,
without method or sense of proportion, you have put wonderful things on to
canvas, have drawn them out of yourself, notwithstanding your mechanical
inefficiency. For if the likeness between the
sisters was remarkable, the likeness between this girl and the poster which he
had come from studying was more remarkable still. "
The woollen-draper's application to the bell was answered by a very pretty
young woman, with dark Jewish features, roguish black eyes, sleek glossy hair, a
trim waist, and a remarkably neat figure: the very model, in short, of a bachelor's
housekeeper. So many distresses—
so many joys coming at the same time are too much for me. Do you know what Spurlock has done?"
"Mr. "
"And partly what else?"
"I shall never tell anybody that.
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