“Well,” he said, argumentatively, “it IS. A sinister thought edged in. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably, by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. He got off at Canal, and she exited behind the crowd. I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's 'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. Moving to the shuttered window, Melusine dragged the heavy drapes back. Everything proclaimed the mischievous propensities of the recent occupants of the chamber. It was finished by the end of that year, each character having asserted itself pronouncedly in my imagination. '" As these words were delivered by the carpenter with stern emphasis, a female servant entered the room, and stated that a gentleman was at the door, who wished to speak with Captain Darell on business of urgent importance. Sebastian had fetched tallow, which she angrily ordered him not to use, as she suspected its origin was not animal but human. Every care had been taken of it, as well as of himself, by the humane inmates of the house in which he had sought shelter. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. She was for ever scanning luggage and finding her way about the world, via these miniature pictures. Her fancy dress, save for the green-gray stockings, the pseudo-Turkish slippers, and baggy silk trousered ends natural to a Corsair’s bride, was hidden in a large black-silk-hooded operacloak.
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