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"Not at all spoilt by the education of the great world, which, alas! obedient to the duties of wife and mother, however little my sacrifices are appreciated, I have long since relinquished. Lady Glenalvon suggests turning that hideous old moat into a fernery, a great improvement. Of course your poor father makes objections." Tom's letter was written on black-edged paper, and ran thus:
I turned my eyes toward New York: a fortnight more, and my parents should greet me as a European doctress, if not a British. "The excitement had been too great; I sunk, a little exhausted, on the sofa. They bought me a letter. It was black-edged. I tore it open with a scream. My father was dead." "I WAS prostrated, stupefied. I don't know what I did, or how long I sat there.
And I will own, that when people saw my father perched up in front of the omnibus of death, dressed in his long, wide, black cloak, and his black-edged, three-cornered hat on his head, and then glanced at his round, jocund face, round as the sun, they could not think much of sorrow or the grave. That face said, "It is nothing, it will all end better than people think."
A black-edged sheet came, thickly written with Phoebe's account of his last illness, in ink which, as the event showed, did not defy obliteration. Probably Thornton had learned, among malefactors convicted of his own offence, secrets of forgery that would seem incredible to you or me.
As he did so, he suddenly perceived a black-edged letter, addressed in a remarkably clear handwriting, with the intertwined initials D. B. in the corner. A fit of silent laughter, due to his utter bewilderment, shook him. He put the letter with all its fellows into another pocket and hurried away into the solitude of the woods.
He rose TO GO; but had a sudden inspiration; very sudden, of course. "Had he nothing about him you could recognize him by?" "Yes, he had a ring I gave him." Falcon took a black-edged envelope out of his pocket. "A ruby ring," said she, beginning to tremble at his quiet action. "Is that it?" and he handed her a ruby ring. Mrs. Staines uttered a sharp cry and seized the ring.
I want to see you, as we are going away very soon, first of all to Honolulu. Appoint your own time; I will be here. By return of post came the black-edged answer, which began with 'Dearest Sibyl, and closed with 'Ever affectionately'. 'I cannot tell you how relieved I am to get your kind letter.
Her hand wandered through the folds of her dress, and at length she drew forth a black-edged letter, at which she gazed in an abstracted way. "Let me see it," cried Edith, hurriedly and eagerly; and before Miss Plympton could prevent her, or even imagine what she was about, she darted forward and snatched the letter from her hand. Then she tore it open and read it breathlessly.
If I turn the trick I'll come back flush." He made some elephantine attempts at smartening his appearance. He gave his fiery mustache a heavenward twist; he dragged into sight a pair of black-edged cuffs, deepened the crease in his middle by tightening his belt another hole, and set off, jaunty as a zoo rhinoceros, across the south end of the park.
The sound of his breathing could be heard distinctly; he twisted a chair round and said: "Take a seat, won't you?" Gyp shook her head. In Mr. Wagge's face a kind of deference seemed to struggle with some more primitive emotion. Taking out a large, black-edged handkerchief, he blew his nose, passed it freely over his visage, and turning to his daughter, muttered: "Go upstairs."
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