The candles—for McClintock never used oil in his dining room—were burning
low in the sconces. ”
“Sorry. Denis. “The
visit seems to have made a most painful impression upon him. "If you are in earnest, Thames," she replied, with a look of gentle reproach, "you
are very foolish; and, if in jest, very cruel. ”
“No doubt. In a little while—to-morrow—all
these tender, beautiful emotions will pass away, and I'll become what I was
yesterday, a cynical, miserly old spinster. She had
finally managed to start breaking him down. . He was a young man of
about two-and-twenty, who, without having anything remarkable either in dress
or appearance, was yet a noticeable person, if only for the indescribable
expression of cunning pervading his countenance. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her,
he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last
she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay
awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. Yet she never once thought
of changing it.
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