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It is right that I
should see my way in this."
He accordingly rang the bell, when a well-powdered footman, in rich
livery, entered.
"Let Miss Gourlay understand that I wish to see her."
This he uttered in a loud, sharp tone of voice, for it was in such he
uniformly addressed his dependents.
The lackey bowed and withdrew, and, in the course of a few minutes, his
daughter entered the study, and stood before him. At the first
glance, she saw that something had discomposed him, and felt a kind of
instinctive impression that it was more or less connected with herself.
Seldom, indeed, was such a contrast between man and woman ever
witnessed, as that which presented itself on this occasion. There
stood the large, ungainly, almost misshapen father, with a countenance
distorted, by the consequences of ill-suppressed passion, into a deeper
deformity--a deformity that was rendered ludicrously hideous, by a
squint that gave, as we have said, to one of his eyes, as he looked at
her, the almost literal expression of a dagger.


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