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‘I don’t know that there is so much to tell. I sha'n't utter a word. She was unusually helpful at breakfast, and unselfish about the eggs: and then
she went off to catch the train before her father’s. She felt like a dried-up old woman. Manning came into her thoughts
again, an unexpected, tall, dark, self-contained presence at the Fadden. I'm ready to bear it all. The picture of her flashed across the doctor's vision magically. Hey. Hitherto she had seen it chiefly in
pictures and other works of art, incidentally, and as a thing taken out of life. He went on munching his water-chestnuts, and stared at the skyline. She could not help herself. About this time,—namely, in November, 1703—
while young Trenchard was in Lancashire, and his sister in London, on a visit, he
received a certain communication from his confidential servant, Davies, which,
at once, destroyed his hopes. Jack turned away with an aching heart. Perhaps it
had been pick-pocketed or jostled from her dress in a
hunt. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray.
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