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Besides , if we let them see we see through them , they would play closer and closer -- '' `` My dear Sir -- In answer to yours of date 11th instant , I regret to say -- that circumstances prevent -- my closing -- with your obliging -- and friendly offer . '' They wrote eight letters ; and Lucy 's quick fingers folded up prospectuses , and her rays brightened the room . When the work was done , she clung round Mr. Bazalgette and caressed him , and seemed strangely unwilling to part with him at all ; in fact , it was twelve o'clock , and the drawing-room empty , when they parted . At one o'clock the whole house was dark except one room , and both windows of that room blazed with light . And it happened there was a spectator of this phenomenon . A man stood upon the grass and eyed those lights as if they were the stars of his destiny . It was David Dodd .