’ ‘Well, don’t bite my head off,’ protested Mrs Sindlesham, clearly amused. Immediately beneath her lay Willesden,—the most charming and secluded village in the neighbourhood of the metropolis—with its scattered farm-houses, its noble granges, and its old grey church-tower just peeping above a grove of rook-haunted trees. She glanced at the soft-ticking clock with the exposed brass pendulum upon the white marble mantel, and made a rapid calculation. Me—I’m nothing but a country wench, and one who went to the bad. And, with a glance of malignant exultation, he quitted the vault, and locked the door. He had, however, planned brilliant careers for his two sons, and, with a certain human amount of warping and delay, they were pursuing these. “Do you think that it is kind of you, Miss Pellissier,” he said, almost roughly, “to ignore your friends so? In your heart you know quite well that you could pay Sydney or me no greater compliment than to give us just a little of your confidence. Blest with a fond husband, surrounded by every comfort, you have never been assailed by the horrible temptations to which misery has exposed me. After all a thousand pounds is a trifle to rid you of an upstart, who may chance to deprive you of tens of thousands. " "Off!" she exclaimed, breaking from his embrace with a scream. ’ The lady frowned suspiciously. “You can’t imagine,” Sydney exclaimed, “that the people downstairs will be such drivelling asses as to believe piffle like that. Winifred instantly picked it up.
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