Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. ’
The breathy laugh came, and Madame Valade abandoned her fan. He said
nothing, even though it was not raining. ’
‘Slaughtered with the rest, was she?’
Despite his hatred of the woman who had caused so much grief, the general
found he could not rejoice as he wanted to. FOOTNOTES:
[A] At the hospital of Saint Giles for Lazars, the prisoners conveyed from the City of
London towards Tyburn, there to be executed for treasons, felonies, or other
trespasses, were presented with a Bowl of Ale, thereof to drink, as their last refreshing
in this life.
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