” “I am delighted to see you all here,” Anna said smiling upon them from behind the tea-tray, “but I shall have to ask you to excuse me for a few minutes. ” “I’m so glad. She frowned and gripped her hands about her knees very tightly. To the practised eye of the waterman matters wore a very different air. Sheppard," said the carpenter, advancing to meet her, and trying to look as cheerful and composed as he could; "what brings you to town, eh?— Nothing amiss, I trust?" "Nothing whatever, Sir," answered the widow. At Anna’s words she seemed suddenly to stiffen. Hitherto she had seen it chiefly in pictures and other works of art, incidentally, and as a thing taken out of life. Without a single ornament about her neck, or hair, wearing the plainest of black gowns, out of which her shoulders shone gleaming white, she was easily the most noticeable and the most distinguished-looking woman in the room. "Poor thing!" muttered he, as the widow departed on her errand, "she's seen better days and better circumstances than she'll ever see again, I'm sure. Her lips were apart, but no breath seemed to issue from them; and, but for a slight—very slight palpitation of the bosom, the vital principle might be supposed to be extinct. But, when the sound of the carriage-wheels died away, and he felt that she was actually gone, his resolution failed him, and he rang the bell violently. What was the fellow about? Was he being imposed upon? He watched as the man Valade turned back, spreading his hands in the French way. Not a star could be discerned, but, in their stead, streaks of lurid radiance, whence proceeding it was impossible to determine, shot ever and anon athwart the dusky vault, and added to the ominous and threatening appearance of the night. The man could put a bullet through her before she could hope to reach any one of them. The doctor's smile is singular; there is no other smile that reaches the same level.
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