Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 54: what you’re looking at

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GUY HAMMERSLEY, | 4s CHAPTER VIL. COLONEL STARR. ‘*My dear madam, inexpressibly charmed, I am gure, to behold youso completely recovered from your shock of this morning.” Thus Colonel Starr, when Mrs. Hammersley and her son entered the parlor. All Guy’s dislike for, and distrust of, the man reasserted itself as he listened to the smooth, measured tones of the voice which had a sort of cloying sweetness about it that somehow reminded the boy of a serpent gifted with the power of fascinating its victims. ‘‘Ah, and your son,” went on the colonel, extend- ing his hand to Guy. ‘‘ How greatly he favors you in looks, Mrs. Hammersley. Iam sure I could not pay the young man a greater compliment than to say this.” ‘‘Why, I have never had that said of us before, Colonel Starr,” and Guy, who was looking steadily at his mother, to see how she received the fulsome flattery of her caller, thought he detected a look almost of terror pass across her face. It was gone in an in- stant, however, and the boy thought it must all have Gomicboo cS (E(0) m