Her Faithful Knight — page 82: what you’re looking at

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78 Ways and Means. sprang from a cushioned basket to bark furiously on Dor- othy’s entrance, and two black and white Persian kittens stopped fighting to stafe at her with round, gray eyes. A dainty coffee service of eggshell china, set in filagree sil- ver, stood on a little inlaid table before a luxurious sofa plentifully supplied with embroidered cushions, while a chased gold box of cigarettes testified to the foreign tastes of the mistress of the house. Every now and then the room was filled with clear, shrill outbursts of song from one or other of the canaries in gilded cages, of which three were suspended from the ceiling; a half-cut Frencn novel in a yellow paper cover lay on the table, closed upon a jeweled toy of a paper-knife, and the observation of this last expensive trifle seemed to fill up the measure of bitterness which had been accumulating in Dorothy’s heart ever since she had set her foot within the house of her wealthy relative. - The paper-knife was of oxidized silver, set with tiny pearls and turquoise, and as her eyes fell upon it, Dor- othy saw in her mind that picture of a deserted, half- starved woman, huddled on a bench of Richmond Bridge, with her wan face upturned to the stars. A stifled sob ros@in her throat; she left the seat and stood with her back to the door, trying to force down her tears. <A rustle of stiff silk skirts made her turn suddenly to find her great-aunt looking at her critically through a pair of long-handled tortoise-shell eyeglasses, on which her monogram was written in diamonds. f (E@) Eomicdooks