# Quote — Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

> My lady, watchful and quiet as the cold stars in the wintry sky, looked up at these casements with an earnest and scrutinizing gaze. One of the windows was shrouded by a scanty curtain of faded red; and upon this curtain there went and came a dark shadow, the shadow of a woman with a fantastic head dress, the shadow of a restless creature, who paced perpetually backward and forward before the window.

- Author: [Mary Elizabeth Braddon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-elizabeth-braddon.md)
- Book: [Lady Audley's Secret](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-elizabeth-braddon/lady-audleys-secret.md)
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