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Updated: June 20, 2025
Then the miserable business of waiting in the large house full of echoes and the round ghostly globes of electric lights, with that thing around her neck for which did they but know of it half the town would break in her windows and doors. The wind traveled the streets without, and shook the window-casings. She cowered over the library fire, listening.
There was never any bloom of dust on Mrs. Field's furniture; there was only the hard, dull glitter of the wood. Her few chairs and tables looked as if waxed; the paint was polished in places from her doors and window-casings; her window-glass gave out green lights like jewels; and all this she did with infinite pains and slowness, as there was hardly a natural movement left in her rheumatic hands.
"Good-morning, Becaniere," said Marie, restraining a smile at the appearance of a person who bore some resemblance to the heads which architects attach to window-casings. "Ha! you come from d'Orgemont?" answered Barbette, in a tone that was far from cordial. "Yes, where can you hide me? for the Chouans are close by "
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