She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other
suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her
cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her
eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. ’
‘Unfair!’ echoed his junior. Silk. ‘She gave me four
separate identities for herself, you must know, including Prudence, before I
managed to get at her real name. ’
Her lips parted, but she did not speak. ’
Taken aback, Gerald let out a short laugh. "Whatever you like, Hoddy," she agreed, wiping the sweat from her forehead. Women, she had been taught, who exposed the flesh
of their bodies under the eyes of man were in a special catagory of the damned. . You go cheer him up. Marina had retired to bed, drinking wine
slowly, sleeping when she was not drinking. The stranger with
a bow returned to his table. Here was a poor half-naked
creature, with a straw crown on his head, and a wooden sceptre in his hand,
seated on the ground with all the dignity of a monarch on his throne. “Go on!” she commanded. ‘She’s gone.
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