His Other Wife: A Novel — page 272: what you’re looking at

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264 MIRAL LEPROSY. more Craig, has been employed as assistant counsel for the State,” This significant issue from the local press was submitted to Mr. Croft's perusal twenty-four hours after his arrest, and previous-to the withdrawal of Mr, Fields from his case, , By the end of the week Mr. Croft received a message from Mr. Pearson to say that he had just arrived at the hotel at a late hour, and much worn with travel, but would call upon his client at ten o'clock the following day. | It may be imagined that the prisoner awaited the hou in no placid frame of mind. The solitude, confinement, and utter ignorance of all that might have transpired in the interval since his arrest, had shaken the iron nerve of this man, whose moral metal had been so highly tempered during the varied experiences of his life. His hard, muscular face, over which he or- dinarily held such supreme control, had taken an expres- sion of intense repression. Its strong lines had grown rigid, lest in some unguarded moment they might betray the secret emotions of the dark soul which they masked. Mr, Croft had made his toilet with unusual care and elegance to receive the great lawyer. Despite his repulsiveness of countenance, there was an air of distinction about this man that at once evidenced a strain of patrician blood running in the darker currents. His points, too, denoted purity of race. Small and comicbooks.com