Her roving eagerness was at all times shaded with shyness, reserve,
repression. As she came in this morning she saw that the lamp was still burning in the study;
so she stopped at the door. A fire enveloped her, a fire which was strangely
healing, filling her heart with warmth, blotting out the menace of the world. The knight, who could ill brook this familiarity, instantly arose. “You are a funny, a very funny young lady,” he said, “but we waste time here. But in his presence a wall of
diffidence and timidity encompassed her. “If he is not here now I
can make myself safe. “—and your aunt—”
For a time he searched for the mot juste. The Widgett mental
furniture was perhaps worn and shabby, but there it was before you, undisguised,
fading visibly in an almost pitiless sunlight. ”
“Thanks to me,” he repeated, puzzled. The
prison gates were besieged like the entrance of a booth at a fair; and the
Condemned Hold where he was confined, and to which visitors were admitted at
the moderate rate of a guinea a-head, had quite the appearance of a showroom.
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