Titwing
takes in, and it was there that I read it.'
'This shows the folly of ignoring the papers,' I said. 'I did
undoubtedly say in some letters to friends that I proposed going to
Japan; but my loss of you, my grief, my misery, paralysed every
faculty of mine. My strength of purpose was all gone. I delayed and
delayed starting, and never left Wales at all, as you see.'
'Two things,' continued Winnie, 'prevented my leaving Hurstcote--my
promise to Mr. D'Arcy to sit to him for his picture of Zenelophon,
and the prosaic fact that I had not money in my pocket to travel
with; for it was part of the delicate method of Mr. D'Arcy to furnish
me with everything money could buy, but to give me no money. His
extravagant expenditure upon me in the way of dress, trinkets, and
every kind of luxury that could be placed in my room by Mrs. Titwing
appalled me. Mrs. Titwing's own bearing, when I spoke to her about
them, would have made one almost suppose that they grew there like
mushrooms; and if I mentioned them to Mr. D'Arcy he would tell me
that Mrs.
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