His subconscious sensed the unnaturalness of it and recoiled. All superfine holland. He had something across his knees. He seemed to stay away from her because she was so cold and formal towards him, addressing him as Mister McCloskey as if she were an Irish maid. This—’ waving an imperious hand in a sweeping arc about the library ‘—is my house. If you choose, you can see him put on board the Zeeslang yourself, Sir Rowland. One trouble, however, shot its slanting bolts athwart the shining warmth of that opening day and marred its perfection, and that was the thought of her father. “I’m damned if I’ll believe it,” he muttered to himself savagely. Once or twice she commented upon it, but she knew that it was resultant of his fear of her impending departure. Perhaps marriage hurt. I’m that shamed to confess it, miss, but it were then I thought of Martha. At least that, I think, is what makes a clever woman’s independent career so much more difficult than a clever man’s. It consisted of a full-dress coat of brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword.
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