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Updated: May 7, 2025
Her figure was tall and meagre; her face that of a woman well over thirty once comely, but worn over-much, and prematurely hardened. The voice had hardened with it, perhaps. The old man, who had risen on his elbow in an access of passion, was taken with a fit of coughing, and sank back upon the pillows. "There's no call to be niffy," he apologised at last.
"He kept them in his study in a kind of glass-tank arrangement, and pretty niffy the whole thing was, I recall. I suppose one ought to have been able to see what the end would be even then, but you know what boys are. Careless, heedless, busy about our own affairs, we scarcely gave this kink in Gussie's character a thought.
I know wot travellin's like. I've travelled a bit myself in my time. That 'addick ain't as niffy as it smells!..." She closed the door behind her and he could hear her quick steps all the way down the stairs to the ground floor. "That's a queer sort of woman," he said to himself.
Stars were beginning to peep out, bats were fooling round, the garden was full of the aroma of those niffy white flowers which only start to put in their heavy work at the end of the day in short, the glimmering landscape was fading on the sight and all the air held a solemn stillness, and it was plain that this was having the worst effect on her.
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