[In Luck at Last by Walter Besant]@TWC D-Link bookIn Luck at Last CHAPTER III 26/39
The rest would be easy.
She even ventured to raise her eyes, and she perceived, with a sinking of the heart, that her estimate of her pupil's age was tolerably correct.
He was a young man, apparently not more than five or six and twenty. It now remained to be seen if he was vindictive. As for the pupil, when he recovered a little from the blow of this announcement, he saw before him a girl, quite young, dressed in a simple gray or drab colored stuff, which I have reason to believe is called Carmelite.
The dress had a crimson kerchief arranged in folds over the front, and a lace collar, and at first sight it made the beholder feel that, considered merely as a setting of face and figure, it was remarkably effective.
Surely this is the true end and aim of all feminine adornment, apart from the elementary object of keeping one warm. "I--I did not know," the young man said, after a pause, "I did not know at all that I was corresponding with a lady." Here she raised her eyes again, and he observed that the eyes were very large and full of light--"eyes like the fishpools of Heshbon"-- dove's eyes. "I am very sorry," she said meekly.
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