It was a small dark-looking room, lined with dingily-bound books upon heavy carved-oak shelves, and with no other furniture than a massive writing-table and three or four arm-chairs. Over the mantelpiece, which was modern and low, there was a portrait of a young man with a dark handsome face, and it was at this that Augusta Darrell was looking. I could see her face in profile as she stood upon the hearth with her clenched hand upon the mantelpiece, and I had never before seen such an expression in any human countenance.
What was it? Despair, remorse, regret? I know not; but it was a look of keenest anguish, of unutterable sorrow. The face was deadly pale, the great gray eyes looking upwards at the portrait, the lips locked Luka Modric Jersey together rigidly.
She did not hear my footstep; it was only when I spoke to her that she turned towards me with a stony Marco Parolo Jersey face, and asked what I wanted.
I told her that Mr. Darrell had sent me.
‘I was Boston Bruins Lasten Pelipaidat coming this instant,’ she said, resuming her usual manner with an effort. ‘I had only loitered to look at that portrait. A fine face, is it not, Miss Crofton?’
‘A handsome one, at any rate,’ I answered doubtfully, for that dark haughty countenance struck me as rather repellent than attractive.
‘That’s as much as to say you don’t think it a good face. Well, perhaps you Kvinnor Outerwear are right. It reminded me of some one I knew a long time ago, and was rather interesting to me on that account. And then I fell into a kind Alex Sandro Jersey of a reverie, and forgot that my dear husband might miss me.’
He came into the room as she was saying this. She told him that she had stopped to look at the portrait, and asked whose it was.
‘It is a likeness of Angus Egerton, the present owner of the Priory,’ Mr. Darrell answered; ‘and a very good likeness, too — of as bad a Nike Air Max 95 360 Dame Sko man as ever lived, I believe,’ he added in a lower voice.
‘A bad man?’
‘Yes; he broke his mother’s heart.’
‘In what manner?’
‘He fell in love with a girl of low birth, whom he met in Norbert Gyomber Jersey the course of a pedestrian tour in the West of England, and was going to marry her, I believe, when Mrs. Egerton got wind of the affair. She was a very proud woman — one of the most resolute masculine-minded women I ever knew. She went down into Devonshire where the Bordeaux Fodboldtrøjer girl lived immediately, and by some means or other prevented the marriage. How it was done I never heard; but it was not until a year afterwards that Angus Egerton discovered his mother’s part in the business. He Adidas Yeezy 350V2 came down to the Priory suddenly and unexpectedly at a late hour one night, and walked straight to his mother’s room. I have heard that old woman who Jaime Penedo Jersey has been showing us the house describe his ghastly face — she was St. Louis Blues Pelipaidat Mrs. Egerton’s maid in those days — as he pushed her aside and went into the room where his mother was sitting. There was a dreadful scene between them, and at Matz Sels Jersey the end of it Angus Egerton walked out of the house, swearing never again to enter it while his mother lived. He has kept his word. Mrs. Egerton never crossed the threlinks:
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