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Updated: May 8, 2025
A somewhat nauseous gift, the girl raised her arms and received it gently, without haste, the saffron body appearing yet more squalid against the Palladian whiteness of her tunic, plain and cool as drapery in marble. "It may live," she said. "We'll do what we can." And followed by the black-trousered woman, she moved quickly away to offer battle with death.
There were days when every owner, black-trousered and in his shirt- sleeves, seemed to be burning the contents of his house in a bonfire in the gutter. Poor men burned things that seemed useful to the casual eye mattresses, bolsters, all soiled, soiled again and polluted by four years of soldiery. Idling over the fire in the evening, Fanny's eye was caught by a stain upon her armchair.
Sam, the object of my visit, would, I imagined, if he were in the house at all, be in the housekeeper's room, a cosy little apartment off the passage leading to the kitchen. I decided to draw that first, and was rewarded, on pushing open the half-closed door, by the sight of a pair of black-trousered legs stretched out before me from the depths of a wicker-work armchair.
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