Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What was to be done? That question now presented itself before me with stern and unrelenting face. Forgetting what things had been, remaining content to be involved in this unexplained mystery, with what demeanor should I again meet Edith - and her brother? Her brother! The cruel thought forced itself upon me. That one incontrovertible fact was the tragic centre of circumstances, the one key to the dark and unknown future...
...went to find Edith. She was alone on the piazza, and she looked up with such a sadly tender face as I approached! - Well, I told her that I had been seized with sudden faintness, and that was all. I asked where her brother was; I was sorry for my seeming rudeness; and Mr. Edmund himself appeared then, and begged me say no more about it. We fell a-talking with each other. I could not help be impressed with the charm of his manner, for he reminded me very distinctly of his sister. Surely there was no dark hidden...
...unhappy man passed the last night of his bachelor existence in his solitary chamber. From 8 till 10 he was busily engaged in writing last letters. Shortly before 11 his brother Henry knocked at the door, when the doomed man told him in a firm voice to come in. The question was then put as to how he thought he should sleep, and his brother, on receiving a satisfactory answer, then took an affectionate farewell, first having seen that his brother was well supplied with cigars and brandy...
...with frosted metal buttons, a white waistcoat and nankeen trousers, with patent leather shoes. He wore round his neck a variegated satin scarf, in the front of which was inserted a breastpin of conspicuous dimensions. Having descended the staircase with a quick step, he entered the apartment where his brother and a few friends were awaiting him. He shook hands cordially with all present, and on being asked how he had slept, answered, "Very well;" and to the further demand as to the state of his mind, he said, "Reasonably happy...
...appeared strengthened, and, as the fatal moment was approaching, he devoted the remaining portion of his time to distributing among his friends those little articles which he would no longer want. To one he gave his cigar-case, to another his pipes and tobacco-pouch, and he charged his brother with his latch-key, with instructions to deliver it, after all was over, to his landlady...