“His love-making,” she remarked, “struck me as unconvincing. Blue haze had settled beyond the black silhouettes of trees, graduating to the deep violet that began the night sky. “You think that this is all. Here are your indentures, if you choose to seek another master. We'll get together this afternoon; and you can pretend that I am your father. ” She glanced shyly at the mirror above her dressing-table, and then about her at the furniture, as though it might penetrate to the thoughts that peeped in her mind. ‘And since the entire company and Pottiswick himself were unable to find hide nor hair of the infernal French female—’ ‘English, Hilary,’ Gerald reminded him. However, it doesn't much signify. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. As his eyes adjusted, he was able to make out the great shrouded shapes of the furniture. So he made merry at the dinner table, told comic stories, and was astonished at the readiness with which she grasped the comic side of life.
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