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Chapter XXV
THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH
The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room
with a deferential little gesture. ”
The girl received this intimation in silence, but the face that looked down
upon the gas fire took an expression of obstinacy that brought out a hitherto
latent resemblance between parent and child. . Brother and Sister
VIII. She was flushed, and her eyes were
bright and angry; her breath came sobbing, and her hair was all abroad in
wandering strands of black. “Miss Pellissier,” he said, “I am going to take a liberty. The soi-disant
Valade held the centre of the room now, only an uncovered but closed card-table,
its surface dusty, between him and the suite at the fireplace. She would become defensive—what she did would be the
thing that mattered.
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