“Now look here, Veronica, let us be plain with each
other. I’ll go
after them and kill him. ’
***
It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the
closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. But though
the breach was large enough to admit him below, he could not squeeze his bulky
person through the aperture into the Red Room. The room was papered with green, large-patterned
paper that was at worst a trifle dingy, and the arm-chair and the seats of the other
chairs were covered with the unusual brightness of a large-patterned chintz,
which also supplied the window-curtain. "
"Mr. If the young ladies were
dowerless, which seemed likely, their attire at least—so Lucilla assured him in a
whisper—was of the first stare. "
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. Lucy did not suspect the date would be an issue,
considering Cathy's rather liberal attitude towards dating
in general. Afterward, one afternoon, he hovered about her,
and came and sat beside her and talked of beauty and the riddle of beauty for
some time. Even in her own sorry skin-and-bones state of
wraithlike pallor and gray under eye circles she was
drawing unwanted attention from would-be admirers.
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