"Mr Thornton walked rapidly, without awaiting Dixon's slow movements.
Margaret stood by the tea-table, resolved. The lines in her father's face
were soft and waving, with a frequent undulating kind of trembling, the
dreamy lids a considerable distance from the eyes. Mr Thornton's straight
brows fell low, principally about the lips, one moment stretching from earth
to sky and filling all the width of the horizon, at the next obediently
compressed into a vase."
Continuing the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South -
abridged on the principle of leaving out all the important bits. Mr
Thornton's horse-obsessed mother is introduced; local girl Bessy Higgins
declares a penchant for Satanism; and the servant Dixon becomes ever more
sinister in her behaviour.
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