In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . CHAPTER II. The? sat, the great assassin who slays asmany thousands as ever did plague or cholera,drink or warfare; they say, the thief of re-putation, who steals, with stealthy step andcowards mask, to filch good names away in thedead dark of irresponsible calumny ; theysay, a giant murderer, iron-gloved to slay you,a fleet, elusive, vaporous wiil-o-tlie-wisp, whenyou would seize and choke it ; they say,mighty Thug though it be which strangles frombehind the purest victim, had not been everknown to touch the Lady Hilda. She seemed very passio
In a winter city [electronic resource]: a sketch . CHAPTER II. The? sat, the great assassin who slays asmany thousands as ever did plague or cholera,drink or warfare; they say, the thief of re-putation, who steals, with stealthy step andcowards mask, to filch good names away in thedead dark of irresponsible calumny ; theysay, a giant murderer, iron-gloved to slay you,a fleet, elusive, vaporous wiil-o-tlie-wisp, whenyou would seize and choke it ; they say,mighty Thug though it be which strangles frombehind the purest victim, had not been everknown to touch the Lady Hilda. She seemed very passionless and cold; andno one ever whispered that she was not whatshe seemed. Possibly she enjoyed so unusual 14 IN A WINTER CITY. an immunity, first, because she was so veryrich; secondly, because she had many malerelations; thirdly, because women, whilst theyenvied, were afraid of her. Anyway, her name wasaltogether without reproach; the only defect tobe found in her in the estimate of many of heradorers. Married without any wish of her own beingco
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