Notwithstanding the heat of the season,—which was not, however, found particularly inconvenient in this subterranean region,—a large heaped-up fire blazed ruddily in one corner, and lighted up a circle of as villanous countenances as ever flame shone upon. The carpenter well knew from the obstacle which had interfered with his own progress, that the unknown could not have passed through the same lock as himself. She turned a resolute face southward. “You propose, then,” she remarked, “that I shall still be saddled with a pseudo husband. There is some deep treachery hidden beneath his words. Unlocking a cupboard, he then took out some cold meat and other viands, with a flask of wine, and a bottle of brandy, and began to eat and drink voraciously. Chapter XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT AT LAST At exactly ten minutes past ten Annabel rang the bell of her sister’s flat. He looked up to see an ancient coach making its ponderous way down the street. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for many women it is a lost paradise. “This isn’t a world for an innocent girl to walk about in. She would marry him. In the mean time, let me advise you as a friend not to irritate him by a refusal, which would be as useless as vexatious.
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