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CHAPTER VII
The astonishing collapse of Spurlock created a tableau of short duration. "
"And I'm glad your worship's recognition doesn't come too late," observed the
Master. “Sebastianus? Where did my husband go?”
He smiled at her gently, patronizingly, as he prevented
her from movement or escape. He had a handsome,
jolly-looking face; stood six feet two in his stockings; and measured more than a
cloth-yard shaft across the shoulders—athletic proportions derived from his
father the dragoon. The struggle had dislodged the white wimple,
which was evidently too large for her, and her black hair broke free, whirling
like a whiplash about her head as her hands curled into fists, coming up to beat
at his chest, her little teeth bared for attack. Her hair
was gathered up behind, in a sort of pad, according to the then prevailing mode;
and she wore a muslin cap, and pinners with crow-foot edging. He was still flashily dressed, with much obvious
jewellery and the shiniest of patent boots, but his general bearing and appearance
had altered for the worse. ”
“You are not going to that ball! You are not going out of this house in that getup!”
Ann Veronica tried yet more earnestly to treat him, as she would treat any
man, with an insistence upon her due of masculine respect. The detective rapidly sketched the appearance of
the room in his notebook, and picked up the pistol from under the table. I don’t know.
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