Pearls and Spanish lace—she herself, with assurance, could see them,
and the “full length” too, and also red velvet bows, which, disposed on
the lace in a particular manner (she could have placed them with the
turn of a hand) were of course to adorn the front of a black brocade
that would be like a dress in a picture. However, neither Marguerite
nor Lady Agnes nor Haddon nor Fritz nor Gussy was what the wearer of
this garment had really come in for. She had come in for Everard—and
that was doubtless not his true name either. If our young lady had
never taken such jumps before it was simply that she had never before
been so affected. She went all the way. Mary and Cissy had been round
together, in their single superb person, to see him—he must live round
the corner; they had found that, in consequence of something they had
come, precisely, to make up for or to have another scene about, he had
gone off—gone off just on purpose to make them feel it; on which they
had come together to Cocker’s as to the nearest place; where they had
put in the three forms partly in order not to put in the one alone. The
two others in a manner, covered it, muffled it, passed it off. Oh yes,
she went all the way, and this was a specimen of how she often went.
She would know the hand again any time. It was as handsome and as
everything else as the woman herself. The woman herself had, on
learning his flight, pushed past Everard’s servant and into his room;
she had written her missive at his table and with his pen. All this,
every inch of it, came in the waft that she blew through and left
behind her, the influence that, as I have said, lingered. And among the
things the girl was sure of, happily, was that she should see her
again.
CHAPTER IV.
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