Part 4
But presently, as she sat on the one antimacassared red silk chair and surveyed
her hold-all and bag in that tidy, rather vacant, and dehumanized apartment, with
its empty wardrobe and desert toilet-table and pictureless walls and stereotyped
furnishings, a sudden blankness came upon her as though she didn’t matter, and
had been thrust away into this impersonal corner, she and her gear. His favorite newspaper was the
Times, which he began at breakfast in the morning often with manifest irritation,
and carried off to finish in the train, leaving no other paper at home. "
"What's the meaning of all this?" demanded Sir Cecil. The windows of these rooms were obscured
with draperies, their floors a carpet patchwork; the china ornaments on their
mantels were of a class apart. . ”
They were lingering over their dessert. He was standing
by, rating her ladyship,—who can scarcely stir from the sofa,—while I was
packing up her jewels in the case, and I observed that she tried to hide a small
casket from him. Wood from pressing his suit long ago. At sunset
the swarming abruptly ceased; even the sampans appeared to draw closer
together, with the quiet of water-fowl. "
Jack was about to comply; but not liking the man's manner, he walked on.
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