The study seemed absolutely unaltered, there was still the same lamp with a little chip out of the shade, still the same gas fire, still the same bundle of blue and white papers, it seemed, with the same pink tape about them, at the elbow of the arm-chair, still the same father. She stopped abruptly at the sound of his voice, and lost the thread of what she was saying. "Mr. ’ Mrs Sindlesham’s lips twitched. Her tone should have warned him, but he was too much in earnest to regard it. To surrender himself to the law, to face trial and imprisonment, was out of the question. 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 next morning she went out with her post-office savings bank-book, and telegraphed for a warrant to draw out all the money she had in the world. ‘A little promenade, madame?’ Madame Valade rose from the chintz-covered chair with alacrity and a little rustle of her silken petticoats.
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