A pair of long-lashed blue eyes studied them both as she slowly brought her hands down to rest by her sides. " And the great thief-taker indulged himself in a chuckle at the effect produced by this announcement. Pure romantic nonsense on her part. Last time I left home I felt as hard as nails. I once might have married you for your beauty,—now I marry you for your wealth. Now you will learn the result. ” “Eh?” “I’ve forgotten something. ’ ‘Wouldn’t you?’ ‘In Valade’s place, with so much at stake—and more perhaps than he thought, for if he goes to the lawyers he’s bound to find out about this house—’ Hilary said it for him. The great ordeal—that which she had most dreaded—had proved to be no ordeal at all. She described the Goopes and the Fabians to him, and gave him a sketch of her landlady; and he talked in the most liberal and entertaining way of a modern young woman’s outlook. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished, and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions.
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