" "I sha'n't want these curtains. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. “Oh good. He's neighbourly; he has a jingle for every ache and joy I've had. It was you who were so much amazed that I did not try—the music hall stage here. I’m fine. A gaunt, powerful man: no feature of his face decided, and yet for all that it had the significance of a countenance hewn out of rock. With me behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose. And next morning she attired herself with especial care and neatness, found his address in the Directory at a post-office, and went to him. “Annabel at last,” he shouted. Her eye met his four inches away, and his was glaring, immense, and full of resolution, a stupendous monster of an eye. It just made me mad to the boiling point. She told her husband that she wished her nothing more than her own death. Thames Street was wholly impassable.
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