[The Guilty River by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Guilty River CHAPTER XII 6/28
That fine girl of Toller's was standing at the door.
She is really handsomer than ever.
Are you going to see her, you wicked man? Which do you admire--that gypsy complexion, or Lena's lovely skin? Both, I have no doubt, at your age. Good-bye." When we had left each other, I thought of the absent Captain in the Navy who was Lady Rachel's husband.
He was a perfect stranger--but I put myself in his place, and felt that I too should have gone to sea. Old Toller was alone in his kitchen, evidently annoyed and angry. "We are all at sixes and sevens, Mr.Gerard.
I've had another row with that deaf-devil--my new name for him, and I think it's rather clever.
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