{"product_id":"2940013683273","title":"The Shadows on the Wall","description":"'Henry had words with Edward in the study the night before Edward died,'\u003cbr\u003esaid Caroline Glynn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a hard colourlessness of\u003cbr\u003eface. She spoke not with acrimony, but with grave severity. Rebecca Ann\u003cbr\u003eGlynn, younger, stouter, and rosy of face between her crinkling puffs of\u003cbr\u003egrey hair, gasped, by way of assent. She sat in a wide flounce of black\u003cbr\u003esilk in the corner of the sofa, and rolled terrified eves from her sister\u003cbr\u003eCaroline to her sister Mrs Stephen Brigham, who had been Emma Glynn, the\u003cbr\u003eone beauty of the family. She was beautiful still, with a large,\u003cbr\u003esplendid, full-blown beauty; she filled a great rocking-chair with her\u003cbr\u003esuperb bulk of femininity, and swayed gently back and forth, her black\u003cbr\u003esilks whispering and her black frills fluttering. Even the shock of death\u003cbr\u003e(for her brother Edward lay dead in the house), could not disturb her\u003cbr\u003eoutward serenity of demeanour. She was grieved over the loss of her\u003cbr\u003ebrother: he had been the youngest, and she had been fond of him, but\u003cbr\u003enever had Emma Brigham lost sight of her own importance amidst the waters\u003cbr\u003eof tribulation. She was always awake to the consciousness of her own\u003cbr\u003estability in the midst of vicissitudes and the splendour of her permanent\u003cbr\u003ebearing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut even her expression of masterly placidity changed before her sister\u003cbr\u003eCaroline's announcement and her sister Rebecca Ann's gasp of terror and\u003cbr\u003edistress in response.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I think Henry might have controlled his temper, when poor Edward was so\u003cbr\u003enear his end,' said she with an asperity which disturbed slightly the\u003cbr\u003eroseate curves of her beautiful mouth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Of course he did not _know_,' murmured Rebecca Ann in a faint tone\u003cbr\u003estrangely out of keeping with her appearance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne involuntarily looked again to be sure that such a feeble pipe came\u003cbr\u003efrom that full-swelling chest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Of course he did not know it,' said Caroline quickly. She turned on her\u003cbr\u003esister with a strange sharp look of suspicion. 'How could he have known\u003cbr\u003eit?' said she. Then she shrank as if from the other's possible answer.\u003cbr\u003e'Of course you and I both know he could not,' saad she conclusively, but\u003cbr\u003eher pale face was paler than it had been before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebecca gasped again. Be married sister, Mrs Emma Brigham, was now\u003cbr\u003esitting up straight in her chair; she had ceased rocking, and was eyeing\u003cbr\u003ethem both intently with a sudden accentuation of family likeness in her\u003cbr\u003eface. Given one common intensity of emotion and similar lines showed\u003cbr\u003eforth, and the three sisters of one race were evident.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What do you mean?' said she impartially to them both. Then she, too,\u003cbr\u003eseemed to shrink before a possible answer. She even laughed an evasive\u003cbr\u003esort of laugh. 'I guess you don't mean anything,' said she, but her face\u003cbr\u003ewore still the expression of shrinking horror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Nobody means anything,' said Caroline firmly. She rose and crossed the\u003cbr\u003eroom toward the door with grim decisiveness. 'Where are you going?' asked\u003cbr\u003eMrs Brigham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have something to see to,' replied Caroline, and the others at once\u003cbr\u003eknew by her tone that she had some solemn and sad duty to perform in the\u003cbr\u003echamber of death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Oh,' said Mrs Brigham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the door had closed behind Caroline, she turned to Rebecca.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Did Henry have many words with him?' she asked.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145767338224,"sku":"2940013683273","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013683273_p0.jpg?v=1763583909","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013683273","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}