In Sight of St. Paul's — page 228: what you’re looking at

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ATONEMENT, 223 CHAPTER XV. ATONEMENT. It was late in the afternoon, about six weeks after the events narrated in the last chapter. The sun was sinking behind the roofs of London and poured its golden radiance into a plainly but comfortably furnished room in the third story of a private hospital near Waterloo Bridge. Before one of the windows, in a low chair, propped up with pillows, reclined Cynthia Dell, but sadly changed from the gorgeous Panther of a few weeks before. Her face was thin, pale, and haggard, and marked with more than one ugly scar. While Aileen had been rescued unharmed, though in the very nick of time, from: the fire which had destroyed the villa at Highgate, Cynthia had been less fortunate. The flames had already reached her when the firemen managed to bear her fainting form from the burning room, and she was badly, though not fatally, injured. To-day she was sitting up for the first time, and the doctors had pronounced her out of danger, al- though she would probably never be again the vigor- (Efe) > Eomic 200 GS