Papillon would have broken him down; anything tender
would have sapped his will; and like as not he would have left the stool and
rushed into the night. "
"It would be funny—just as a trustworthy Malay would be funny. If this is the young lady, she can perhaps calm him. “I mean to go to that dance! I meant to
reason with you, but you won’t reason. Miss Klegg and the youngest girl made a
vigorous attack on Miss Garvice, who had said she thought women lost
something infinitely precious by mingling in the conflicts of life. Girls
screamed in chorus. Oh! I'm in such a
fluster!"
Upon which, she snatched up her fan, cast a look into the glass, smoothed down
her scarf, threw a soft expression into her features, and led the way into the next
room, whither she was followed by her daughter and Thames Darrell. 'But I don't desire to spoil sport,—not I. ” She fumbled with her keys and
opened the front door. Her feathered hat fell from her head and down
her back, and she felt fingers writhing in the mass of her hair and caressing the
flesh of her neck beneath so that she shivered uncontrollably. I shall still believe in you. This is
altogether insupportable. ”
“Would you like to be a boy?”
“I wonder! It’s out of the question, any way. And now I find, when it is too late,
that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. "
"So I perceive," said Ruth, withdrawing her hands.
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