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You remarked the extraordinary keenness of my sense of hearing, while we were fellow passengers on the steamship. When he stooped over her, and whispered in her ear, I heard him though nearly the whole breadth of the room was between us. "You hell-cat!" that was what Mr. Farnaby said to his wife. The clock on the mantelpiece struck the half-hour after seven.
"If you're planning to get my friend into trouble," she burst out, "not another word shall pass my lips!" Even Amelius profited by the warning which that threat unintentionally conveyed to him. "Keep your own secrets," he said; "I only want to spare Mrs. Farnaby a dreadful disappointment. But I must know what I am talking about when I go to her.
Farnaby placed in me," he said to the coroner, "was a confidence which I gave her my word of honour to respect. When I have said that, I hope the jury will understand that I owe it to the memory of the dead to say no more." There was a murmur of approval among the audience, instantly checked by the coroner.
"I remember you told me that rogues had tried to impose on you, in past times when you employed people to find her." "I have proof that I am not being imposed upon," Mrs. Farnaby answered, still keeping her face hidden from him. "One of them knows of the fault in her foot." "One of them?" Amelius repeated. "How many of them are there?" "Two. The old woman, and a young man."
Giddy under the violence of the rubbing, staggered by the contrast between the cold reception accorded to him by the niece, and the more than friendly welcome offered by the aunt, Rufus submitted to circumstances in docile and silent bewilderment. "There; you'll do till you get home nobody can laugh at you now," Mrs. Farnaby announced. "You're an absent-minded man, I suppose?
JOHN FARNABY, I have always suspected that you had something to do with the disappearance of our child. I know for certain now that you deliberately cast your infant daughter on the mercy of the world, and condemned your wife to a life of wretchedness. "Don't suppose that I have been deceived!
Regina looked up in wide-eyed astonishment. Mrs. Farnaby stamped impatiently on the floor. Regina rose, gracefully bewildered. "My dear aunt, how very odd!" she said and gave the kiss demanded, with a serenely surprised elevation of her finely shaped eyebrows. "Yes," said Mrs. Farnaby; "that's it one of my oddities. Go back to your work. Good-bye."
Farnaby's room, Amelius could not doubt that the motive of pacifying his wife was the motive which had first led Farnaby to receive Regina into his house. Was it unreasonable or unjust to infer, that the orphan child must have been mainly indebted to Mrs. Farnaby's sense of duty to the memory of her sister for the parental protection afforded to her, from that time forth?
His harsh voice, alternating with Regina's meek remonstrances, reached the ears of Amelius from the breakfast-room. "I'm not going to wait for the gentleman-Socialist," Mr. Farnaby announced, with his hardest sarcasm of tone. "Dear uncle, we have a quarter of an hour to spare!" "We have nothing of the sort; we want all that time to register the luggage." The servant's voice was heard next. "Mr.
"She once spoke to me of her lawyers," he said. "Do they know nothing about her?" The answer to this question showed that the sternly final decision of Mr. Farnaby was matched by equal resolution on the part of his wife. One of the partners in the legal firm had called that morning, to see Regina on a matter of business. Mrs.
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