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"Six weeks!" exclaimed Thames, in a melancholy tone. She looked steadfastly out. ‘—and I love your raven hair, and your bright blue eyes, and your very
kissable lips—’ suiting the action to the words ‘—and I love the crazy way you
speak English, and the way you curse at me. Pilgrim's Progress,
The Life of Martin Luther and Alice in Wonderland (the only fairy-story she had
been permitted to read) were the sum total of her library. “Nigel, don’t you understand. They came teeming distressfully through her aching brain:
“A man can kick, his skirts don’t tear;
A man scores always, everywhere. She found she was trembling at his nearness and full of a thrilling dread that
he might touch her. She watched
them sleep for what seemed hours from the high window
until her body grew colder than the stone sill she perched
upon. She wrote it down. Or he would find something—a wave in her
hair, a little line in the contour of her brow or neck, that made an exquisite
discovery. But as the students sat about Miss Garvice’s tea-pot and drank tea or smoked
cigarettes, the talk got away from Capes. ’ She gestured at his
hand, on which Roding’s makeshift bandage had been replaced by a more
efficient one. . “I’ve been following you for many years. Nevertheless, she could not prevent a rising excitement as the dawn of the
new life drew near to her—a thrilling of the nerves, a secret and delicious
exaltation above the common circumstances of existence.
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