With the broken links of the chain, which served
him in lieu of more efficient implements, he commenced operations just above
the chimney-piece, and soon contrived to pick a hole in the plaster. He leaned back in a low chair, and watched her graceful movements,
the play of her white hands as she bent over some wonderful machine. Why should she trouble herself over that young fool, who was
nothing to her; who, when he eventually sobered up, would not be able to
recognize her, or if he did, as something phantasmagorical?
Perhaps he should not apply the term "fool"; "unfortunate" might be the more
accurate application. The pistol was his own, it
is true, but it was one which was taken from him when he forced his way in upon
me before. "Well," she said, as they reached the hotel portal, "what is your advice?"
"Would you follow it?"
"Probably not. It filled her with indefinable fear. "My mother is avenged. \"Let's get out of here. He heard the door close;
and in a little while he fell into a doze; and there came a dream filled with
broken pictures, each one of which the girl dominated. ’ He flushed. Slowly and ruefully she realized
why marriage was so idealized among her generations of
those before her. ”
Annabel shrugged her shoulders. “You must leave me your address if you please,” he said, as she rose to go. Women are not in the world
in the same sense that men are—fighting individuals in a scramble.
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