[Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett]@TWC D-Link bookBuried Alive: A Tale of These Days CHAPTER I 31/33
"What arrangements have you made during the day ?" Priam stammered: "None.
I've been asleep." "You aren't very respectful," said Duncan Farll. So this was his second cousin, whom he had met, once only, as a boy! Never would he have recognized Duncan.
Evidently it did not occur to Duncan to recognize him.
People are apt to grow unrecognizable in the course of forty years. Duncan Farll strode about the ground-floor of the house, and on the threshold of each room ejaculated "Ah!" or "Ha!" Then he and the doctor went upstairs.
Priam remained inert, and excessively disturbed, in the hall. At length Duncan Farll descended. "Come in here, Leek," said Duncan. And Priam meekly stepped after him into the room where the hard chair was.
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