As a net result she had come to think of all married people much
as one thinks of insects that have lost their wings, and of her sisters as new
hatched creatures who had scarcely for a moment had wings. There he paused again, half turning his back and
pretending to look for someone among the soldiers on the benches. Anna was not “Alcide” of the
“Ambassador’s,” whose subtly demure smile and piquant glances had called him
to her side from the moment of their first meeting. Women! He is
always chanting the praise of some discovery; sometimes it will be a native,
often a white woman out of the stews. She could not judge its direction, and began to move swiftly
along the bookshelves, her hand running behind her across the spines of the calfbound volumes. That’s all. With the immediate necessities in train, Melusine fell to brooding on her
situation, which she found insupportable. Most of my successes in life have been made with a sort of
reckless vigor. It was not so uncommon back in the
Hebrides for men to take several wives and additional
lovers. I
suppose you will think me very unsisterly and cold-hearted, but there are
circumstances in connexion with my sister’s latest exploit which are intensely
irritating both to my husband and to myself. I am going to smoke a little here, and then I shall go to the study. "Your answer, gem'men?" demanded Sharples. This lover of yours—”
“He doesn’t know!” cried Ann Veronica.
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