An
ancient smile lay on his lips. "What have you seen?" inquired Lady Trafford. It would be very hard perhaps
to make you understand just how I feel about it. As
soon, however, as the last solemn rites were over, and the remains of the
unfortunate woman committed to their final resting-place in Willesden
churchyard, his firmness completely deserted him, and he sank beneath the
weight of his affliction. Won’t you come and have some tea with me? There is a new
place in Bond Street,” he hastened to say, “where everything is very well done,
and they give us music, if that is any attraction to you. Retribution has a queer way
of acting sometimes. "
Animated by his insatiate desire of vengeance, he seemed to gain strength daily,
—so much so, that within a fortnight after receiving his wound he was able to
stir abroad. “What of her? Have you quarrelled with her?”
The girl shook her head. ‘Of course she don’t understand,’ snapped Charvill irascibly. The vast ironic humour of it: he was starting on his honeymoon!
CHAPTER XIX
Meanwhile the doctor, upon returning to his office, found Ah Cum in the waiting
room. He turned his eyes and stared at Miss Garvice like one who wakes from a
reverie, and then got up and strolled down the laboratory toward his refuge, the
preparation-room. Couldn’t fit it inside, but the
horse’s blanket lay over it, and, like I said, as long as no one rides him and don’t
remove the blanket, I think it’ll stay hid.
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