[The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Law and the Lady CHAPTER VII 23/25
You will frighten him if he sees you like that.
A touch of color you _must_ have.
Where do you keep it? What! you haven't got it? you never use it? Dear, dear, dear me!" For a moment surprise fairly deprived her of her self-possession. Recovering herself, she begged permission to leave me for a minute.
I let her go, knowing what her errand was.
She came back with a box of paint and powders; and I said nothing to check her.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|