Overview
It is finished, said the woman, speaking very quietly to herself. "Not another day, nor a night, if I can be ready before morning!" She stood alone in her own room, with none to mark the white-hot pallor of the oval face, the scornful curve of quivering nostrils, the dry lustre of flashing eyes. But while she stood a heavy step went blustering down two flights of stairs, and double doors slammed upon the ground floor. It was a little London house, with five floors from basement to attic, and a couple of rooms upon each, like most little houses in London; but this one had latterly been the scene of an equally undistinguished drama of real life, upon which the curtain was even now descending. Although a third was whispered by the world, the persons of this drama were really only two.
- | Author: W. Hornung E. W. Hornung
- | Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 308 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1421845245
- | ISBN-13: 9781421845241
