She stood alone in her own room, with none to mark the white-hot pallor of the oval face, the scornful curve of quivering nostrils, the dry luster of flashing eyes. But while she stood a heavy step went blustering down two flights of stairs, and double doors slammed upon the ground floor.
A 1902 mystery novel from Ernest William Hornung, an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London.
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