[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER XX 4/22
You know your room.
I will stay till the servants are up.' She replied: 'No, let this night with him be mine.' 'I am not intruding... ?' 'If you wish to remain...' No traces of weeping were on her face.
The lampshade revealed it colourless, and lustreless her eyes.
She was robed in black.
She held her hands clasped. 'You have not suffered ?' 'Oh, no.' She said it without sighing: nor was her speech mournful, only brief. 'You have seen death before ?' 'I sat by my father four nights.
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