I mean—I
mean to do what I can. “I’ll have to pay it. Single pearls—
Lord knows where they come from!—are always turning up, some of them of
fine lustre; but I never set eyes on them. ”
“After all,” Sir John remarked complacently, “it is astonishing how easy it is for
people with brains and a little knowledge of the world to completely hide
themselves. ”
“You are,” he answered unconsciously. Dieu du ciel,
but where was Gerald? On the move again, she found herself standing before
one of the mirrors, gazing into her own countenance without seeing it. Having only seen him
in the gloom of a dungeon, and loaded with fetters, Kneebone had not noticed
this alteration: but he was now greatly struck by it. The room seemed a vacuum. Most of the time,
he was hunting and he returned at night. “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing. Indeed, it seemed inevitable that she must clear it up with his assistance, or
not at all.
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