[The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Circular Study CHAPTER X 8/25
Tall, finely developed, with a grand air and gentlemanly manners. Even his clothes correspond with what you told me to expect: a checked suit, brown in color, and of the latest cut.
Oh, he is the man!" Mr.Gryce, with a suddenly developed interest in the lid of his inkstand, recalled the lines which Mr.Adams had written immediately before his death, and found himself wholly at sea.
How reconcile facts so diametrically opposed? What allusion could there be in these lines to the new-made bride of another man? They read, rather, as if she were his own bride, as witness: I return your daughter to you.
She is here.
Neither she nor you will ever see me again.
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