[The Town Traveller by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Town Traveller CHAPTER XIV 17/24
The elder woman had slightly grizzled hair; her age could not be less than fifty, but she was in good health and spirits.
With the intention of describing her to Gammon, Polly noticed that she had a somewhat masculine nose, high in the bridge. A quarter of an hour before the end of the piece Polly, dressed for departure, came forth and discovered her faithful slave. "Now listen to me," she said, checking his blandishments.
"I told you there might be something to do for me, and there is." Parish was all eagerness. "There'll be three people coming out from the stalls, a gentleman and two ladies.
I'll show you them--see? They'll drive off in a kerridge--see? And I want you to find out where they go." Nothing could have been more startling to Christopher, in whose mind began a whirl of suspicions and fears. "Why? What for ?" he asked involuntarily. Polly was short with him. "All right, if you won't do it say so, and I'll ask somebody else.
I've no time to lose." He gasped and stammered.
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