“And to-night we are friends?”
“We are friends,” said Ann Veronica, and drew her hand quickly away from
him. “As a matter of fact, I deserve to. ‘Signed by a priest at Le Havre, so it
must be true. You go home and wait a century, Vee, and then try again. But I don't look for peace on this side the grave. ” She
gestured to an abandoned farmhouse down a long stretch
of icy dirt road. That poor child, trying to
escape, and not knowing how. "What ho!" he cried slapping Smith, who had fallen asleep with the brandybottle in his grasp, upon the shoulder. Canton is all China
at night. ”
“All we shall get,” said Ann Veronica. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. She felt anger at Sebastian,
anger at the thrill that she felt in her loins upon seeing
him, anger at herself for never having the courage to end
her own life. He came down
the shop looking for her quite obviously, and took up a position on the other side
against a mirror in which he was able to regard her steadfastly.
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