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(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1905 edition. Excerpt: ...porch. She heard him fling the bag down
on the seat, and turn away towards the village, without hindering
himself for a single pace. Then the butler opened the door, took up
the bag, brought it in, and carried it up the staircase to place it
on the slab by Miss Aldclyffe's dressing-room door. The whole
proceeding had been depicted by sounds. She had a presentiment that
her letter was in the bag at last. She thought then in diminishing
pulsations of confidence, 'He asks to see me Perhaps he asks to see
me: I hope he asks to see me.' A quarter to eight: Miss Aldclyffe's
bell--rather earlier than usual. 'She must have heard the post-bag
brought, ' said the maiden, as, tired of the chilly prospect
outside, she turned to the fire, and drew imaginative pictures of
her future therein. A tap came to the door, and the lady's-maid
entered. 'Miss Aldclyffe is awake, ' she said; 'and she asked if
you were moving yet, miss.' 'I'll run up to her, ' said Cytherea,
and flitted off with the utterance of the words. 'Very fortunate
this, ' she thought; 'I shall see what is in the bag this morning
all the sooner.' She took it up from the side table, went into Miss
Aldclyffe's bedroom, pulled up the blinds, and looked round upon
the lady in bed, calculating the minutes that must elapse before
she looked at her letters. 'Well, darling, how are you? I am glad
you have come in to see me, ' said Miss Aldclyffe. 'You can unlock
the bag this morning, child if you like, ' she continued, yawning
factitiously. 'Strange ' Cytherea thought; 'it seems as if she knew
there was likely to be a letter for me.' From her bed Miss
Aldclyffe watched the girl's face as she tremblingly opened the
post-bag and found there an envelope addressed to her in Edward's
handwriting; one he had written...
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