All these circumstances,—slight in
themselves, but powerful in their effect,—touched the heart of the widowed
carpenter, and added to his depression. She wished she could steal his smiles and keep them in a
box, they had always been so precious. You know that, and I know that, though we might be put to it to
find a reason why. Then suddenly he seized a new
preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a
week’s work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it
across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the
bookcase; then, without either haste or pause, he swept his arm along a shelf of
re-agents and sent them to mingle with the debris on the floor. As he gazed down
into the courts of the prison, he could not help shuddering, lest a false step might
precipitate him below. ”
“That sounds more promising,” Lady Lescelles declared.
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