She shut her lips hard, her jaw hardened, and she set herself to struggle with him. She entered the front hall, formerly magnificent, now faded and dusty, the old wood table waiting for guests who would never come. " "What is this to me, Sir?" said Trenchard, cutting him short. " "Quite the contrary," rejoined the woollen-draper, laughing good-humouredly. Though not much passed the middle term of life, he seemed prematurely stricken with old age. It is necessary. The youth with the hair brushed back and the spectacled Scotchman joined in the fray for and against the women’s vote. The popcorn dwindled to a half a bucket, his heart settled into its normal routine. A single false step might have precipitated him into the street; or, if he had trodden upon an unsound part of the roof, he must have fallen through it. His fellow-prisoners nicknamed him the gallows-provider, from a habit he had of picking out all those who were destined to the gibbet. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. She uttered a little ejaculative note of joy and rushed to the bed. He neither attempted to prevent his nephew's departure, nor to follow him. For the rest, she derived her ideas of the married state from the observed behavior of married women, which impressed her in Morningside Park as being tied and dull and inelastic in comparison with the life of the young, and from a remarkably various reading among books.
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