[After Dark by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookAfter Dark CHAPTER I 28/33
You meet no more till you meet at the church.
Justin, my coach! Lomaque, pick up my hood. Monsieur Trudaine, thanks for your hospitality; I shall hope to return it with interest the first time you are in our neighborhood. Mademoiselle, put on your best looks to-morrow, along with your wedding finery; remember that my son's bride must do honor to my son's taste. Justin! my coach--drone, vagabond, idiot, where is my coach ?" "My mother looks handsome when she is in a passion, does she not, Rose ?" said Danville, quietly putting up his snuff-box as the old lady sailed out of the room.
"Why, you seem quite frightened, love," he added, taking her hand with his easy, graceful air; "frightened, let me assure you, without the least cause.
My mother has but that one prejudice, and that one weak point, Rose.
You will find her a very dove for gentleness, as long as you do not wound her pride of caste.
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