His hand trembled a little, so that he had to peer more intently than usual. He liked these quarters in Reeves’s Hotel, but it was just so damnably cold, what with coal in short and expensive supply, and wood seemingly deficient of heat. It had been two days since he had stood before the Delgados’ great chimneypiece, and he had scarcely been warm since. But it had not been on account of inactivity, even in the absence, still, of orders from Colonel Norris. He had scoured the premises of the booksellers and cartographers of Lapa and the neighbouring districts until he had assembled a handy topographical library.He looked up, puzzled by the lacuna. Johnson’s statement of itself seemed to require no comment, but the absence of a consequential clause rendered his purpose obscure.‘She’s a nice woman.’Hervey had not imagined so simple a resolution.‘You give your opinion very decidedly. Nice: how so?’‘Tha saw t’way she were wi’ that kiddlin’ of ’ers.’Hervey thought the observation fair.
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