"Richard Leighton of Trinity: it is not a common name, but it cannot be
he--have lost sight of him for years; heard he was married, and came to
no good."
He was able to watch her for a minute as she stood by the table giving
some directions to her child, who was sent on an errand. In that minute
he saw her as she had not been seen by anybody in Langborough. To Mrs.
Bingham and her friends Mrs. Fairfax was the substratum of a body and
skirt, with the inestimable advantage over a substratum of cane and
padding that a scandalous history of it could be invented and believed.
To Langborough men, married and single, she was a member of "the sex,"
as women were called in those days, who possessed in a remarkable degree
the power of exciting that quivering and warmth we have already
observed. Dr. Midleton saw before him a lady, tall but delicately
built, with handsome face and dark brown hair just streaked with grey,
and he saw also diffused over every feature a light which in her eyes,
forward-looking and earnest, became concentrated into a vivid, steady
flame.
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