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Shocked and startled, Ursula was carried to her Uncle Tom's

house He was not yet at home His house was si wall, and e library, with one end devoted to

his science It was a handsoiving the same sense of hard, mechanical

activity, activityout on

the hideous abstraction of the town, and at the green meadows

and rough country beyond, and at the great, mathealking up the curved drive He was

getting stouter, but with his bowler hat ell set down on

his brows, he looked manly, handsome, curiously like any other

man of action His colour was as fresh, his health as perfect as

ever, he walked like a er was startled when he entered the library, his

coat fastened and correct, his head bald to the crown, but not

shiny, rather like so naked that one is accustomed to see

covered, and his dark eyes liquid and for ashamed And the clasp of his

hand was so soft and yet so forceful, that it chilled the heart

She was afraid of him, repelled by hily fearless girl, and he

detected in her a kinship with his own dark corruption

Immediately, he knew they were akin

His n, and rather cold He

still laughed in his curious, ani

up his wide nose, and showing his sharp teeth The fine beauty

of his skin and his coe, repellent grossness of hiht sense of

putrescence, the cohs and loins