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the use of speaking of her father and the
delay in his coming? After a moment’s pausestanding by the old
man’s sideshe slipped down to the floorand sate at his feet.
Possibly her presence might have some balm in it; but uttering of
words was as a vain thing. He must have been aware of her being
therebut he took no apparent notice. There they satesilent and
stillhe in his chairshe on the floor; the dead manbeneath the
sheetfor a third. She fancied that she must have disturbed the
father in his contemplation of the quiet facenow more than half
but not fullycovered up out of sight. Time had never seemed so
without measuresilence had never seemed so noiseless as it did
to Mollysitting there. In the acuteness of her senses she heard a
step mounting a distant staircasecoming slowlycoming nearer.
She knew it not to be her father’sand that was all she cared
about. Nearer and nearer―close to the outside of the door―a
pauseand a soft hesitating tap. The great gaunt figure sitting by
her side quivered at the sound. Molly rose and went to the door: it
Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
ElecBook Classics
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was Robinsonthe old butlerholding in his hand a covered basin
of soup.
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—it’s
a promise between usis it not