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Some men would have found it no easy task to console Phoebe, under the circumstances. Jervy had the immense advantage of not feeling the slightest sympathy for her: he was in full command of his larg…
Rufus and his young friend walked together silently as far as a large square. Here they stopped, having reached the point at which it was necessary to take different directions on their way home. “I…
Amelius found it no easy matter to pass quickly through the people loitering and gossiping about him. There was greater freedom for a rapid walker in the road. He was on the point of stepping off the…
The landlady of the lodgings decided what was to be done. “You will be so good, sir, as to leave my apartments immediately,” she said to Amelius. “I make no claim to the week’s rent, in consideratio…
With a rapid succession of events the morning had begun. With a rapid succession of events the day went on. The breakfast being over, rooms at the hotel were engaged by Rufus for his “two young frie…
“Rufus! I don’t quite like the way you look at me. You seem to think—” “Give it tongue, my son. What do I seem to think?” “You think I’m forgetting Regina. You don’t believe I’m just as fond of her…
The door of Mrs. Farnaby’s ground-floor room, at the back of the house, was partially open. She was on the watch for Amelius. “Come in!” she cried, the moment he appeared in the hall. She pulled him…
Amelius left Mrs. Farnaby, troubled by emotions of confusion and alarm, which he was the last man living to endure patiently. Her extraordinary story of the discovered daughter, the still more startl…
Two days later, Amelius moved into his cottage. He had provided himself with a new servant, as easily as he had provided himself with a new abode. A foreign waiter at the hotel—a gray-haired Frenchm…
Amelius went straight back to the cottage, with the one desperate purpose of reverting to the old plan, and burying himself in his books. Surveying his well-filled shelves with an impatience unworthy…
