‘Grace à vous, I am compelled to rescue
myself. Melusine ripped at
the buttons of the garment, dragging it open and away, and gasped at the massive
red stain on his shirt. Lucy tried not to make her cringe
noticeable. There are so many girls nowadays who are quite unpresentable at
tea, with their untrimmed laughs, their awful dispositions of their legs when they
sit down, their slangy disrespect; they no longer smoke, it is true, like the girls of
the eighties and nineties, nevertheless to a fine intelligence they have the flavor
of tobacco. . What you would look upon as immorality
is here merely an established custom, three thousand years older than
Christianity, accepted with no more ado than that which would accompany you
should you become a clerk in a shop. Or,
after all, is it worth while? The Channel is a little broader than the Boulevards—
but one crosses it sometimes. She saw her life before her robbed of all generous illusions, the
wrappered life unwrappered forever, vistas of dull responses, crises of makebelieve, years of exacting mutual disregard in a misty garden of fine sentiments. ”
“NEVER!”
Her heart sank at the change in his expression. ’
Of which Melusine was only too well aware, for her stepmother had done
nothing to save her from the convent. Lucy
sighed. She got hysterical. Romance! The romance of passing faces, of wires that carried voices and words
to the far ends of the world, of tremendous mechanisms that propelled ships and
trains! And, oh the beautiful books!
She swiftly knelt upon the floor and once more gathered the books to her heart.
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