The business of serving gave Gerald a few moment’s grace, for he was dubious about the effect on an elderly female, not in the best of health, of raking up old memories. Even so much allusion as this to that family shadow, she felt, was an immense recognition of her ripening years. “In two days,” she reflected, “Mrs. Loneliness—something that was almost physical: as if the vitality had been taken out of the air she breathed. Now, I'll be getting along. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. Love anywhere. Never be downhearted. There was a strip of old rose brocade in the making that set an ache in the girl's heart for the want of it. When she awoke from a pleasant dream an hour later, she was shocked to find herself restrained in a bed that was not hers and not the inn’s. What is it? Good God!” An unhappy little smile parted her lips.
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