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"Never!" rejoined Kneebone, with increased ardour,—"never, till I receive from
your own lips the answer which is to make me the happiest or the most
miserable of mankind. But—but how?’
‘Can you write?’ Gerald asked, digging into one of his capacious pockets and
bringing out a leather ring purse. She doesn’t like you because
she says the Beck’s are not ‘our kind of people’ which is
her code for them not being rich enough. Then the lady smiled and her radiance, even in the
darkness, warmed Gerald unexpectedly. “And now let us leave the men alone and
talk about ourselves. ”
“I’m so glad. Those I don’t mind, though, the games. “No doubt about that,” Meddoes continued. “I am happy. I’ve
bored you or something. 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. “Don’t you know?”
“Oh! I know—”
“Well—” Her face was an unaccustomed pink. She went about the gory business of disposing of the
bodies, cutting them up with a large butcher knife and
packing the light dry pieces of their bloodless remains in a
double ply garbage bag, pieces that looked like
overcooked, ruined meat. As you brew so must you drink.
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