brain-exercise

Updated: June 10, 2025

Moreover, the brain-exercise had acted as a tonic; his tension of nerve had returned. He stood beside the window once more, looking out into a fast-awakening London with an absent and frowning eye. He was thinking out the next few hours. A little after eight Letty was roused from a restless sleep by the sound of a closing door. She rang hastily, and Grier appeared. "Who was that went out?"

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume II