[The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Great Impersonation CHAPTER VIII 9/18
"I've come to speak to him.
Can you face me, Everard Dominey, you who murdered my son and made a madwoman of your wife ?" The lawyer would have answered her, but Dominey waved him aside. "Mrs.Unthank," he said sternly, "return to your duties at once, and understand that this house is mine, to enter or leave when I choose." She was speechless for a moment, amazed at the firmness of his words. "The house may be yours, Sir Everard Dominey," she said threateningly, "but there's one part of it at least in which you won't dare to show yourself." "You forget yourself, woman," he replied coldly.
"Be so good as to return to your mistress at once, announce my coming, and say that I wait only for her permission before presenting myself in her apartments." The woman laughed, unpleasantly, horribly.
Her eyes were fixed upon Dominey curiously. "Those are brave words," she said.
"You've come back a harder man.
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