His Other Wife: A Novel — page 318: what you’re looking at

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310 ARRAIGNED. ‘¢<What is burning?’ ‘Amy testifies that a faint odor as of burning cloth ex- hales from the vial that Mr. Croft empties. ‘She hears him answer that the smell arises from a piece of linen that has fallen into the lamp; but Amy plainly sees in the reflection from the looking-glass that no linen has been near the lamp. With a sense of some dreadful injustice to her helpless mistress underlying all this, the slave, impotent to interfere, except at a cost which she has not the courage to incur, sees the fatal dose administered, and hears the devoted woman utter her loving gratitude to the man who thus ministers to her sufferings. ‘‘The slave then beholds her master carefully rinse the glass and the crystal’ flask with a sponge that he uses in the basin of water, and afterward squeezes and returns to its place on the towel-rack. | ‘‘The flask he carefully re-wraps in the foldings of tissue-paper, and begins to replace it in his pocket, when a sudden aversion to carrying it on his person seems to seize him, and he looks about for a suitable place to hide or destroy the empty flask. At last he espies, among the long-accumulated layers of dust that overhang the tester of the tall canopy of the bed, what he conceives to be a convenient receptacle for the tiny package. The house- maids have respected that tester so long that it is not likely they will very soon again interfere with its time- honored dust; and into the midst of it he tosses the package, GEomicbooks: (E(0)