Chaperon

NOTE: THIS IS a DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. an old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them.James, Henry is the author of 'Chaperon', published 2004 under ISBN 9781419256431 and ISBN 1419256432.