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Updated: May 9, 2025
Why does every unusual event strike such deadly terror to my heart?" inquired the bride, as she sank, pale and trembling, into her resting-chair. In a few minutes the door opened and Margaret re-appeared. "I beg your grace's pardon, but the old woman is very obstinate and persistent. She will not tell me her business.
The only one who seemed to have the full possession of his faculties was Ishmael. He quietly dismissed the gaping servants from the room, closed the doors, and drew a resting-chair to the side of his old friend, and gently constrained him to sit down in it.
On arriving at Woodside Cottage Miss Merlin was met by Sally, the colored maid of all work, and shown immediately into a neat bedroom on the ground floor, where she found Hannah sitting in state in her resting-chair beside her bed, and contemplating with maternal satisfaction the infant prodigies that lay in a cradle at her feet. "Do not attempt to rise!
The duke threw off the travelling coat that he had assumed for his journey and had worn up to this moment; and he took the wadded silk dressing gown, handed him by his valet, and having put it on, he dropped into an easy resting-chair, and ordered Kerr to lower the gas and then leave the room for the night. The young Duke of Hereward did not retire to bed that night.
She entered silently, and found the banker wrapped in his gray silk dressing-gown and seated in his large resting-chair. "Come and sit by me, my dear. I only wanted to have a little talk with you tonight," he said, holding out his hand to her.
And it was better, perhaps, that this should be so, as it prepared her to sustain the shock which might otherwise have proved fatal to one of her nervous and sensitive organization. She looked up from her resting-chair, and saw, standing, courtesying before her, a weary, careworn, elderly woman, in a rusty black bonnet, shawl, and gown. No very alarming intruder to contemplate.
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