The drawers at the moment were too busy to attend to her, and she
would have seized the opportunity of examining, unperceived, the assemblage
within, through a little curtained window that overlooked the adjoining chamber,
if an impediment had not existed in the shape of Baptist Kettleby, whose portly
person entirely obscured the view. Simply because they
are hardened by—by bestiality, and poisoned by the juices of meat slain in anger
and fermented drinks—fancy! drinks that have been swarmed in by thousands
and thousands of horrible little bacteria!”
“It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica—“a vegetable. Earles strode into the waiting-room. . "
"He shuddered when he drank. The inner apartment was rather gracefully furnished with a thick, fine Turkish
carpet, a good brass fender, a fine old bureau, and on the walls were engravings
of two young girls’ heads by Greuze, and of some modern picture of boys
bathing in a sunlit pool. All these circumstances,—slight in
themselves, but powerful in their effect,—touched the heart of the widowed
carpenter, and added to his depression. Beside me on Anna’s table was a pistol. Better get a dress. After debating with
himself for some time whether he should employ an assistant, or make the
attempt alone, his love of gain overcame his fears, and he decided upon the latter
plan. "
There was a momentary and terrible silence, broken only by a few feeble groans.
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