Brendon looked across the room at her thoughtfully. Her mother had died when
she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively,
one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of
her, and so she had made what she could of her father. He is all kindness, and will overlook them for your poor father's sake
—for mine. "
"Not for worlds!" exclaimed both ladies together. ‘Parbleu,’ she uttered indignantly. The prisoner was
then thrust in by Quilt. ’ He strode to the fireplace behind the leather-topped desk and
addressed his own reflection in the mirror, wagging an admonitory finger in his
own face. ‘Parbleu, but it is not comfortable in the least in there. Divers plans and figures were chalked
upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for
the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The
History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an
abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all
manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's
Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend
gentleman and the principal members of his flock. “I did not,” Anna answered. “And then?” said Ann Veronica. ’
For a moment or two there was dead silence in the parlour. She had slept badly at first in a
long chair next to the fire waiting for him to return, but
caught on after that.
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