Two Sides of the Face

Two Sides of the Face
Midwinter Tales

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Two Sides of the Face by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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1903

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Two Sides of the Face
Midwinter Tales

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Stephen of Steens.The Horror on the Stair.The Mazed Election (1768).The Hotwells Duel.Cleeve Court.The Collaborators.The Rider in the Dawn.My Lady's Coach.

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etter worth respecting than old Humphrey--a very dangerous man indeed for an enemy.

Roger in return considered her merely as a hussy--a designing baggage who had sold herself to an old fool. He came with a mind quite clear about this, and was not the sort of man to dismiss a prejudice easily. But her greeting, though it did not disarm him, forced him to defer hostilities for the moment, and in his room he allowed to himself that the woman had shown sense. He could not well send her packing while the old man lay above ground, and to begin quarrelling, with his corpse in the house, would be indecent. Go the woman should, but during her three days' grace stepson and stepmother had best keep up appearances.

He did not demur, when descending to supper, he found his father's chair removed from its place at the head of the table and his own set at the side on the widow's right. She met him with a smile, too, of which he had to approve; it seemed to say, "I do not forget that we are, and must be, antago

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