[The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward]@TWC D-Link bookThe Testing of Diana Mallory CHAPTER II 19/37
The nose, aquiline and large; the mouth large also, but thin-lipped and flexible; slight hollows in the cheeks, and a long, lantern jaw.
The whole figure made an impression of ease, power, and self-confidence. "So you like your old house ?" he said, presently, to Diana, sitting down beside her, and dropping his voice a little. "It suits me perfectly." "I am certain the moat is rheumatic! But you will never admit it." "I would, if it were true," she said, smiling. "No!--you are much too romantic.
You see, I remember our conversations." "Did I never admit the truth ?" "You would never admit it _was_ the truth.
And my difficulty was to find an arbiter between us." Diana's face changed a little.
He perceived it instantly. "Your father was sometimes arbiter," he said, in a still lower tone--"but naturally he took your side.
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