Uneasy Spirits: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery by M. Louisa Locke

Author:M. Louisa Locke [Locke, M. Louisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M. Louisa Locke
Published: 2011-10-07T22:00:00+00:00

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The girl was neatly dressed in a dark, royal-blue walking suit, tailored to suggest the beginning of a woman’s curves, with blinding white lace at collar and cuffs. Her hair, parted in the center, was pulled into a topknot of intricate curls. Polished, black, high-button shoes peeked out from her long skirt. She stared straight into space, the china doll held loosely in her lap. The faint chimes of church bells seemed to awaken her. She stood up, looked puzzled for a moment at the doll and dropped it onto the chair. She then glided over to the tall mirror, which was illuminated by a shaft of afternoon sun. She stared, then tilted her head, touched her hair, and smiled. Noticing a film of dust on the mirror, she frowned and looked around. Seeing a worn and ragged jersey lying on top of a trunk, she walked over to pick it up, but in doing so her long skirts stirred up clumps of mud on the floor. Making a small sound of disgust, she lifted up her skirts, moved rapidly to the opening in the floor that led down to the set of steps, and began to descend.

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