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Updated: June 14, 2025
Charles, like Mary, had little money, but great hopes; and he was clerk in a government office, with a friendly impression of everybody and much trust in himself. And old Harry Colquhoun, his chief, had given them six weeks to go to Switzerland and be happy in, all in celebration of Charles Knollys's majority and marriage to his young wife.
'I? certainly, my dear Charlie, I don't want you at all, exclaimed a voice Lady Knollys's briskly, from an open window close by; 'what could put that in your head, dear? And in went my cousin's head, and the window shut down. 'She is such an oddity, poor dear Aunt Knollys, murmured the young man, ever so little put out, and he laughed.
My hand was on the banisters, my foot on the first step, when below me and against the faint light that glimmered through the great window on the landing I saw a bulky human form ascending, and a voice said 'Hush! I staggered back, and at that instant fancied, with a thrill of conviction, I heard Lady Knollys's voice in Uncle Silas' room.
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