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Updated: June 19, 2025
If Desire were pale naturally, she was more than pale now. Her frightened eyes fluttered to her husband's face and fluttered away again. Why had she never thought of this! Sheer panic held her quiet in the straight-backed chair. But Spence, without seeming to notice, had seen and understood her startled eyes. "Thanks, Aunt," he said cheerfully. "Of course Desire must make her own choice.
The front room was very hot and uncomfortable. The young man looked about on the familiar scene. There were the same straight-backed chairs, the same homemade carpet, more faded and threadbare than ever, the same ugly enlarged photographs within their massive frames which the enterprising agent had sold to Mrs. Duke.
A handsome girl, straight-backed, honest, just a dash, and not too much, of our blood in her. 'Consult her again, sir, I broke in. 'You will discover she is not of your way of thinking. 'Do you mean to say she's given you a left-hander, Harry? 'I have only to say that I have not given her the option.
The candle-light, twinkling on the face of a dark wardrobe near the door, lit up its rough inscription, "S.T. and M.T., MDCLXVII"; the straight-backed oaken chairs might well claim an equal age; and the bed in the corner was a spacious four-poster, pillared in smooth mahogany and curtained in faded green damask. In the shadow of this bed lay the man who had spoken.
The vision of his own grandmother came up before him, she who would not let him read a child's book in a thunder shower lest God should consider the act too trivial in the face of elemental threatening and strike him dead. He took one of the straight-backed chairs by the stove and leaned forward with an absorbed pretense of warming his chilled hands. But he was not reassuring Tenney.
An hour had passed before Anna quitted the flat and then she knew beyond any possibility of question that she was about to become Willy Forrest's wife. The great gates of the prison yard rolled back to admit the carriage in which Alban had been driven from the hotel, and a cordon of straight-backed officials immediately surrounded it.
Slipping from the window-sill to the floor, she carried the book she had been reading back to its corner in the little red bookcase, and shut it up with the musty volumes inside. Then she walked slowly down the narrow aisle of the little meeting-house, between its double rows of narrow straight-backed pews.
The same law that had worked in her, bringing her up from a tall, straight-backed slip of a girl to a woman strong and grown, from a woman grown to a woman old, angular, feeble, almost witchlike, with individuality all sharpened and sharpened, as all rounding from the world's contact fell off from her that same law would work, was working, in the family she had watched like a mother.
It was true that she gave her hand to Miss Mackenzie, but she did even this with austerity; and when she seated herself, not on the sofa as she was invited to do, but on one of the square, hard, straight-backed chairs, Miss Mackenzie knew well that pleasantness was not to be the order of the morning.
She sat in erect, straight-backed fashion, her right hand lying on her knee, the fingers of the left rubbing softly up the arm, serenely oblivious of his presence. Guest cleared his throat once, cleared it again, cleared it a third time, but the words would not come. They passed through the lodge-gates and drew up before The Holt, where the groom stood ready to assist Cornelia to alight.
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