15/22 Her chest had dropped, so that she stooped; and her voice had dropped, so that she spoke low, and with a dead lull upon her; altogether, she had the appearance of having dropped body and soul, within and without, under the weight of a crushing blow. She threw the cards down on the table when she had won them all, as if she despised them for having been won of me. "Let me think." I was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she checked me with her former impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand. You hear ?" "Yes, ma'am." "Estella, take him down. |