" So saying, he slung it upon his wrist. Skirting the noble gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,) the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype, in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry, especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place, by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. She looked about and discovered a door partially hidden by shadow. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. “Men are curious animals, with a trick of falling in love readily with girls about your age. Have the goodness to affix your name to that memorandum, Sir Rowland. “What’s wrong?” He asked as she shifted awkwardly. ‘Maman?’ ‘How touching,’ said a sarcastic voice behind her in French. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase, surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, cheek by jowl. Clotilde’s stunning green eyes were reflected in the gazes of the tender young children, but their faces had been hollow and sunken, their hair matted, and their clothing in bad need of repair. She wanted to stay where she was; but tears were dangerous; the more she wept, the weaker she would become defensively. " "But I never can forget it, Winny. I spied a small picture of them in your house, though. ‘It is seldom enough I am visited by anyone at all, let alone a personable young redcoat.
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