[Christian’s Mistake by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik]@TWC D-Link bookChristian’s Mistake CHAPTER 13 9/29
No wonder you should have plenty of visitors, I met a tribe coming here--your sister-in-law (charming person is Mrs. Grey!) your nephews and niece, and that gipsy-looking, rather handsome nurse, who is a little like the head of Clytie, only for her sullen, underlying mouth and projecting chin." "How you notice faces, Sir Edwin!" "Of course.
I am a little bit of an artist." "And a great piece of a musician, as I understand.
Which reminds me," added Miss Gascoigne, eager to plunge into her mission, which, in her strange delusion, she earnestly believed was a worthy and righteous one, in which she had embarked for the family benefit--"I wanted to ask whether you did not know Mrs.Grey's father, the organist? And herself too, when she was Miss Oakley ?" "Every body knew Mr.Oakley," was the evasive answer.
"He was a remarkable man--quite a genius, with all the faults of a genius.
He drank, he ate opium, he--" "Nay, he is dead," faintly said Aunt Maria. "Which, you mean, is a good reason why I should speak no more about him.
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