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Updated: August 17, 2024
You're soon up. What a blessing!" The two majestic and imposing creatures met on the mat, craning forward so that their lips might meet above their terrific bosoms. "What's the matter?" Mrs. Baines asked, fearfully. "Well, I do declare!" said Mrs. Maddack. "And I've driven specially over to ask you!" "Where's Sophia?" demanded Mrs. Baines. "You don't mean to say she's not come, sister?" Mrs.
Maddack explained that Sophia was very high-strung and could not trust herself. Great efforts were put forth by the company to be lugubrious and inconsolable, but the secret relief resulting from the death would not be entirely hidden. The vast pretence of acute sorrow could not stand intact against that secret relief and the lavish richness of the food.
"Come, sister," said Mrs. Maddack. "A last look." And they passed into the mortuary bedroom to gaze at Mr. Baines before he should be everlastingly nailed down. In death he had recovered some of his earlier dignity; but even so he was a startling sight. The two widows bent over him, one on either side, and gravely stared at that twisted, worn white face all neatly tucked up in linen.
A fire brightened the drawing-room, which was a truly magnificent apartment, a museum of valuables collected by the Baines and the Maddack families since the year 1840, tempered by the latest novelties in antimacassars and cloths. In all Bursley there could have been few drawing-rooms to compare with Constance's. Constance knew it. She was not afraid of her drawing-room being seen by anybody.
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