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She wore a soft white chamber-gown, her hair hung loose on her shoulders, her pale face cowled it in. The look was inexpressibly sad. Over her fell dim, coloured lights from the stained-glass windows; and shadowy ancestors looked silently down from the armour-hung walls. To Gaston, collected as he was, it gave an ominous feeling. Why did she come here even in her sleep? What did that look mean?
She wore a soft white chamber-gown, her hair hung loose on her shoulders, her pale face cowled it in. The look was inexpressibly sad. Over her fell dim, coloured lights from the stained- glass windows; and shadowy ancestors looked silently down from the armour-hung walls. To Gaston, collected as he was, it gave an ominous feeling. Why did she come here even in her sleep? What did that look mean?
"Really," he said, suddenly subdued as his aunt who was forty and looked twenty-five came forward in her pretty chamber-gown, and placed two firm white arms around him and kissed him squarely and with vigour. "You dear!" she said; "you certainly are the best-looking boy in all Florida. When did you come? Is Jim Wayward's yacht here still? And why didn't he come to see me?"
But, stop! where are my clothes and wig?" for I was standing before them in my chamber-gown and stockings, with my nightcap on. "I have it I have it!" says a little chambermaid: "Ambrose is off in your honour's dress." "And my money my money!" says I; "where is my purse with forty-eight Frederics in it? But we have one of the villains left. Officers, seize him!"
His crutch and footstool lay at his feet as usual, and he was dressed in his chamber-gown, which he had put on before I left him. He was reclining in his chair, in his accustomed posture, with his face towards the fire, and seemed absorbed in meditation, indeed, at first, we almost hoped he was. Going up to him, we found him dead.
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