Her eyes were lit with smouldering
passion. He waited. Did you know you’re very maternal? Damn,
you’re more maternal than my Mom. To-morrow night
—or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure
him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and,
then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. In
remote times and countries its evil tendencies had expressed themselves in the
form of tyrannies, massacres, wars, and what not; but just at present in England
they shaped as commercialism and competition, silk hats, suburban morals, the
sweating system, and the subjection of women. . And when you reflect how much at heart your poor mother, whose
loss we must ever deplore, had our union, you will, I am persuaded, no longer
refuse me. Which, if we are not all of us very careful indeed, will be stolen from Miss
Charvill. From me. At once there came an answering knock. "
"It may be; but if it shortens the distance and lightens the journey, I care not,"
retorted the widow, who seemed by this reproach to be roused into sudden
eloquence. He dragged it out, and perceiving, in spite of the
decayed frame, that it was the body of Sir Rowland Trenchard, commanded his
attendants to convey it up stairs—an order which was promptly obeyed. I might have told you the
truth. It ceased to be the symbol of liberty and a remote and
quite abstracted person, and became suddenly and very disagreeably the token of
a large and portentous body visible and tangible. "You dropped this, sir.
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