Not
content with this exhibition of her prowess, the Amazon lifted him up as easily
as if he had been an infant, and placed him upon her shoulders, to the infinite
delight of the company, and the increased distress of his mother. Then light footsteps became audible, descending the
staircase with a certain deliberation and a faint rustle of skirts. He had invited himself to dine with her
merely to watch her table manners. The old aspect of the place was gone. How the deuce, though, am I going to account for her? People will be
asking questions when they see her; and if I tell the truth, they'll start to snubbing
her. He could see lust virtually dripping
from the dark-haired boy’s maw as she teased every last
note from her shuddering violin, the devil in a black skirt. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world.
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