Her Faithful Knight — page 75: what you’re looking at

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Ways and Means. 71 sleeping heavily—the dead, motionless repose of utter ex- haustion. Inthe morning light her face looked paler and more hollow in the cheeks than on the preceding evening. Like a lifeless thing she lay, her long, dark lashes in sharp contrast against her white skin, and the aureole of pale straw-colored hair tossed over the pillow and toning to a natural dark-brown for half an inch above the roots. Dorothy tenderly kissed her sister’s wasted hands, try- ing vainly to restrain her tears, and registering anon in her heart a vow of vengeance against Sergius Trevelyan. In her anxiety on Phyllis’ account she decided that the best-known doctor of the neighborhood should attend upon her. The man with the largest house and door- plate and practice would be also, in all probability, better able to wait a little while for his money—at least, until Dorothy had a chance of earning it. Acting on this con- viction, Miss Knight found herself at half-past eight o’clock before the door of Dr. Morgan, whose stately man-servant scarcely troubled to conceal a yawn as he stared superciliously on the shabbily-dressed matutinal visitor. Luckily for Dorothy’s errand, the doctor himself came down his broad oak staircase to breakfast while she still parleyed with the man in the hall. Dr. Morgan was a tall, well-built man of about sixty years of age, with a fresh-colored skin, a short silver beard and mustache, and singularly shrewd and kindly blue eyes. The sweetness of his visitor’s voice and the beauty of her face arrested his attention, and, much to his servant’s disgust, he at once led the way into the consultation room, listened with much kindness while she stated her sister’s case, and promised to come round to Lockhart Cottages within half an hour’s time. Lockhart Cottages were not used to visitors of such distinguished appearance, and the doctor found himself EOmiIcdoo S (EC)