Immediately he was gone, she regretted that she had not followed. She wanted to take him in her arms and hush him, but she sat perfectly still. She wore a plain black dress, reaching almost to her throat—her small oval face, with the large brown eyes, was colourless, delicately expressive, yet with something mysterious in its Sphinx-like immobility. “Really, Sir John,” she said, “I don’t know how to thank you. She studied the painted names of firms and persons and enterprises on the wall, and discovered that the Women’s Bond of Freedom occupied several contiguous suites on the first floor. Deuce take it! I was very near spelling my name with one P. Mistresses neither deserve consideration nor commiseration. Evidently in the flower of his age, he was scarcely less remarkable for symmetry of person than for comeliness of feature; and, though his attire was plain and unpretending, it was such as could be worn only by one belonging to the higher ranks of society. My friend the doctor suspected it, and so do I. It was quite dark; but as some of the assemblage carried links, it was soon ascertained to be headed by the same party who had mainly incited the former disturbance. “Just come to that seat now you are here, Miss Stanley, and look down the other path; there’s a vista of just the common sort. The class laughed, a few putting their hands to their foreheads in a military salute to mock her. It was really very jolly to talk to a man in this way—who saw the woman in her and did not treat her as a child.
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