[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER XVI 12/18
Suppose I was to ask you to tell all the world whose face it is you insult and hide from the world ?" Raby turned red with wrath and surprise, at this sudden thrust.
"You insolent young scoundrel!" he cried.
"What is that to you, and what connection can there be between that portrait and a man in your way of life ?" "There's a close connection," said Henry, trembling with anger, in his turn: "and the proof is that, when that picture is turned to the light, I'll tell you my name: and, till that picture is turned to the light, I'll not tell you my name; and if any body here knows my name, and tells it you, may that person's tongue be blistered at the root!" "Oh, how fearful!" cried Grace, turning very pale.
"But I'll put an end to it all.
I've got the key, and I've his permission, and I'll--oh, Mr. Raby, there's something more in this than we know." She darted to the picture, and unlocked the padlock, and, with Jael's assistance, began to turn the picture.
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