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I was trying to catch any sign of a pulse under her swan’s neck when I realised that Sir Gerard Seymour Hornby was staring at me.
“May we go through,” he asked gesturing at the door to the living room.
“Of course,” I said. His companion turned her head slowly in my direction. Her lips formed a timid and trembling smile. Her eyes groped the void, pupils white as marble. I gulped. She was blind.
I followed them, unable to take my eyes off the woman with the china doll’s complexion and white eyes, the saddest eyes I had ever seen.
“Please take a seat,” I said, trying to disguise the nervousness in my voice. Arsenal had just scored, but that seemed quite insignificant now, so I picked up the
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