But in the appendix of
the dictionary she had discovered magic names—Hugo, Dumas, Thackeray,
Hawthorne, Lytton. To-night the subtle
suggestiveness of those few daring lines, fascinating in their very simplicity, the
head thrown back, the half-closed eyes—the inner meaning of the great artist
seemed to come to him with a rush. Day after day—five, to be exact—she had returned to Morgan's; and each time
the man would understand what had drawn her, and with a kindly smile would
sit down at the piano and play. “Do you know him?”
Lucy replied, “No, I haven’t met him. "
There had never been, from that fatal hour eight months gone down to this, the
inclination to confess. ”
“I can’t go back to the Beck’s ever again. Instead of English villas and cottages there
were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald
and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and mountain, such
shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen before. “No,” she
answered, reluctantly. “Once or twice. So,
instead, they talked of dancing and what it might mean in a human life. "
"You…. "Goodness only knows what he's reserved for," rejoined the widow in a
desponding tone; "but if Mynheer Van Galgebrok, whom I met last night at the
Cross Shovels, spoke the truth, little Jack will never die in his bed.
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