Lucy sized up the girl. She had to wear cream and
a brown sash and a short frock and her hair down, and Gwen cream and a brown
sash and a long skirt and her hair up. Diane seemed more interested in
the prestige of her violin skills than in the more sordid
subject of her vampirism. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. It seemed to her in her restored geniality that she
liked Manning extremely. This—’ waving
an imperious hand in a sweeping arc about the library ‘—is my house. He passed his arm under that of the constable,
and drew him aside. He would have to go on; he would be forced to enact all the obligations he
had imposed upon himself.
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