[Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookPoor Miss Finch CHAPTER THE THIRD 19/23
"Your voice says to my ears, what your face says to my fingers.
I know I shall like you. Come in, and see the rooms we are going to live in together." As I rose, she put her arm round my waist--then instantly drew it away again, and shook her fingers impatiently, as if something had hurt them. "A pin ?" I asked. "No! no! What colored dress have you got on ?" "Purple." "Ah! I knew it! Pray don't wear dark colors.
I have my own blind horror of anything that is dark.
Dear Madame Pratolungo, wear pretty bright colors, to please _me!_" She put her arm caressingly round me again--round my neck, however, this time, where her hand could rest on my linen collar.
"You will change your dress before dinner--won't you ?" she whispered.
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