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Updated: May 15, 2025
Assuming a stony glare, an unnatural twist of the mouth, the "old man" turned his bewildered glance upon the speaker, allowing it to resolve itself into a sickening show of reproachfulness, and said in a voice that almost made its owner laugh, it was so villainously artificial: "You have the best of me, sir!" An amazed expression came over the face of Mr. Woods.
"Oh, Hepworth, how cruel! how wicked! Tell me truly, were you going without a word?" Clara had clasped both hands over her lover's arm, and was slowly leading him back, with her face uplifted in sweet reproachfulness to his, and drawing deep, long sighs of thanksgiving that she had him there, chained by her linked hands. "I do not know. How can I tell? Your father has dismissed me from his house."
Her pathos, as in the final scene, and at the end of the scene of the reception, where she repeats the one word "Armando" over and over again, in an amazed and agonising reproachfulness, is of the finest order of pathos. She appeals to us by a kind of goodness, much deeper than the sentimental goodness intended by Dumas.
She withdrew into the coach again, and he saw the hand waving towards him for a moment; but whether in reproachfulness or incredulity or misery, or grief, or sad adieu, or what else, he could not, being so hurried, understand. SHE was gone now; and Ruth and he were left to walk away, and wonder. Had Mr Nadgett appointed the man who never came, to meet him upon London Bridge that morning?
Then she said, with adorable reproachfulness, "You don't ask what I did with the body." Mr. Edward Brice started. He was young, and unfamiliar with the evasive expansiveness of the female mind at such supreme moments. "The body oh, yes certainly." "I buried it myself it was suthin too awful! and the gang would have been sure to have found it, and the empty belt.
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