Volume 1

Dr. Edith Romney / a novel [by Anne Elliot].

  • Anne Elliot
Date:
1883
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dr. Edith Romney / a novel [by Anne Elliot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the trees, two lilacs and one graceful laburnum, looked the crescent moon—pale, fair, and distant. Within the room there still lingered enough light near the window to enable the two men to pour out their wine, to light their cigars, and to see each other’s face. They lounged opposite each other in great easy- chairs—content, comfortable, with that soothing sense of repose and well-being induced by an excellent dinner and the fumes of fragrant smoke. The host, a man of sixty, tall, stout, grev-haired. and large-limbed, amply filled his seat. He was large in face and feature also, with plenty of hair, and a long grey beard flowing over his breast in two ragged locks—a beard which did the doctor good service as a mode of expression, for he had tricks of handling those long locks corresponding in vigour and variety to even- change of his impulsive temper. His complexion was florid, his eye-brows bushy, his blue eyes rather small, but capable of much expression ; his brow high and noble, while the lower part of his face was heavy and coarse. A face of con- tradictions—attractive, in spite of its want of beauty, and yet, at times, slightly repellent. In the course of a long and hard-working life, how- ever, the attractiveness—a charm and force in the man himself-—had exercised by far the
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