The Chief Legatee by Anna Katharine Green
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"The veil was like that; I remember now. Brown, isn't it? a dark brown?" "Yes. And the dress?" "I can't tell you a thing about the dress. But her gloves--I remember something about them. They were so tight they gaped open at the wrist. Her hands looked quite disfigured. I wondered that so sensible a woman should buy gloves at least two sizes too small for her. I think she was ashamed of them herself, for she tried to hide them after she saw me looking." "This was in the cab?" "Yes." "Where you didn't speak a word?" "Not a word." "Though she seemed so very much cut up?" "No, she didn't seem cut up; only tired." "How tired?" "She sat with her head pressed against the side of the cab." "And a little turned away?" |
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