[The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Black Robe CHAPTER VII 10/12
Lord Loring asked for a word more of explanation. "I told you yesterday," Romayne answered, "that a dread of the return of the voice had been present to me all the morning, and that I had come to see the picture with an idea of trying if change would relieve me.
While I was in the gallery I was free from the dread, and free from the voice. When I returned to the hotel it tortured me--and Mr.Penrose, I grieve to say, saw what I suffered.
You and I attributed the remission to the change of scene.
I now believe we were both wrong.
Where was the change? In seeing you and Lady Loring, I saw the two oldest friends I have. In visiting your gallery, I only revived the familiar associations of hundreds of other visits.
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