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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. MRS. ARNAUD. To be entirely alone in a strange house, after making a great resolution and carrying it out to the end: after doing a thing which was terrifying to think of before it was done, and when accomplished was more fearful still; was not by any means a reassuring position. Mrs. Arnaud felt that, as she sat down in her little dark back parlour, and thought of the past and of the future. She had taken the great step of her life, and was by herself, for the first time, face to face with facts. She was at this time about forty, looking about five-and-twenty: complexion and features were still perfect, and her vast mass of dark hair, gathered behind and falling in a large curl over her left shoulder, was untouched with grey: she wore over it a small lace cap; from the throat downwards fell a long white shawl of the same material, and her gown was of dark purple silk. Possibly there was not in the West End of London that summer's evening a handsomer or more perfectly dressed woman than Mrs. Arnaud, of No. 17, Hartley Street, Cavendish Square, milliner and dressmaker. She had come back at last to her old trade, which had been her mother's before her. After many years' seclusion as a religious lady, she had once more thrust herself before the public in fulfilment of a certain threat, and she was utterly alone in her terror: she had sent out her maid Rachel, and there was no movement in the house except the ticking of the French clock on the mantel-piece. She opened the door leading to the shop and looked in: it was nearly dark, for the shutters were up, but was set out ready for the morrow, when she would open it. It was full of ghostly female figures, in splendid dim-seen raiment, but without heads. Two of them nearest the window, in her sickly fancy, seem...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217734103 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217734103 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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