[The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prelude to Adventure CHAPTER XII 16/33
oh! yes, you will." Olva went up to Mrs.Craven.The windows of her room were tightly closed and a great fire was blazing; before this she lay stretched out on a sofa of faded green--her black dress, her motionless white hands, her pale face, her moving eyes. She had beside her to-day a little plate of dry biscuits, and, now and again, her hand would move across her black dress and break one of these with a sharp sound, and then her hand would fall back again. "I am very glad to see you.
Draw your chair to the fire.
It is a chill day, but fine, I believe." She regarded him gravely. "It is not much of life that I can watch from this room, Mr.Dune.It is good of you to come and see me.
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