She refused coffee, though she knew that
anyhow she was doomed to a sleepless night. I do not ask if you are entirely English, but if you say truly when you
say you are at my service. Solomon Smith, chapmen, (or what in modern vulgar parlance would be
termed bagmen) travelling to procure orders for the house of an eminent cloth
manufacturer in Manchester. Under the circumstances you must permit me to be the best judge of
the identity of the young lady who did me the honour, as an old family friend, of
dining with me. ’
‘Well, let us leave your name for the present. ‘But, Gérard—’
‘Don’t start arguing,’ he said in a tone that brooked no defiance. Was he your natural father? Did you
know him?”
“No, I didn’t. Even our coarseness. She
was perhaps three-and-twenty, and very pink and healthy-looking, showing a
great deal of white and rounded neck above her business-like but altogether
feminine blouse, and a good deal of plump, gesticulating forearm out of her
short sleeve. It was a moment of
breathless interest to all engaged in the attempt. It's kind of comforting to have you there. "What a very remarkable thing it is," he observed, applying to his snuff-box,
"that Thames Darrell, whom we all supposed dead,"—Kneebone in his heart
sincerely wished he had been so,—"should turn out to be alive after all. . "
"Very interesting," said the Chinaman, with a wave of his tapering hand toward
the roofs.
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