Unconscious of the interest he excited, and entirely occupied by his own thoughts—which, if his bosom could have been examined, would have been found composed of mingled hopes and fears—the young man walked on till he came to an old house, with great projecting bay windows on the first floor, and situated as nearly as possible at the back of St. Wasting no time, he crossed straight to the shutters and opened them. A stomacher, fastened by imitationdiamond buckles, girded that part of her person, which should have been a waist; a coral necklace encircled her throat, and a few black patches, or mouches, as they were termed, served as a foil to the bloom of her cheek and chin. When I've placed another skull and another halter beside them, I shall be contented. Austin, or any man of similar dimensions, would have found wholly impossible. Inside was Anna, leaning a little forward to watch the passers-by, bright-eyed, full to the brim of the insatiable curiosity of youth—the desire to understand and appreciate this new world in which she found herself. The black clad students streamed slowly to their positions carrying their instruments like offerings to the pilgrimage. Secretly she was gratified to be assigned to the rôle of an old traveller. She dreaded leaving him for the night, but separated herself finally. The primitive superstition of his Puritan forbears was his; and before this the buckler of his education disintegrated. He was a civil servant of some standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious, nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather carefully finished verse. What would happen when next morning she returned to Morningside Park? He couldn’t turn her out of doors. Wood,—Winifred fainted in the arms of a female attendant,—and Wood standing beside them almost in a state of distraction. “He has asked to see some one,” he whispered to the doctor. As a rule their comings and goings were discussed with perfect confidence, but on this occasion they both felt that there was intent in her silence as to her destination.
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