"
"What time is it?" inquired Jack. She found herself
anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British
Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essays and
then through various scientific quarterlies for his research papers. . His first inquiries were
concerning the child, and he was delighted to find that it still lived and was
doing well. I'm a
graybeard, an old bachelor; so I am accorded certain privileges. And I affirm to you, on my own conviction, that she who falls,
because she has not strength granted her to struggle with affliction, may be
reclaimed,—may repent, and be forgiven,—even as she, whose sins, 'though
many, were forgiven her'. ‘Do you think because you’ve managed
to pull a gun on me—not to mention several daggers and a vicious little knife—
that you can get away with it against a man who means business?’
‘Do you think that the trigger I would not have pulled, or stuck the dagger into
you, if you had not been as you are?’ she countered. How could you draw the curtain aside which hides the great and holy places of
life—you, who have never loved?”
“You have become French to the core,” she murmured. "Yes?"
"And that when they give their word, they never break it. There’s something about you, a little flavor of Will, I suppose,
that makes one feel—good luck about you and success. "There won't be much left for you," he
said. Twice she smiled,
but not unkindly. Why
did you let him have it?"
"Let him have it? I can't stand at the elbow of any of the guests and regulate his
or her actions. "Without proper medical care, he would have
been dead by morning. ’
‘Oh, she is English?’ repeated Alderley, interest perking up.
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