”
He looked at her anxiously, and she met his glance with a dazzling smile of
gratitude. "
"Try to leave the room, and see whether I daren't," returned Jack, opening the
blade. "But don't ever let me see them again. Her feathered hat fell from her head and down
her back, and she felt fingers writhing in the mass of her hair and caressing the
flesh of her neck beneath so that she shivered uncontrollably. She reminded
him of his linnet, when he gave the bird the freedom of the house: it became
filled with a wild gaiety which bordered on madness. “Your teeth are chattering! I’ll make you some hot
chocolate!” Cathy cried. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes. She has contrived to keep out of my sight up to this time, and I've
no doubt she'll keep out of it altogether for the future. And this
clear-visioned child had comprehended that only half the rogues were really ill. “I wish they did,” he
said, “but they don’t. "
CHAPTER V. At last she was roused. ‘But I will
tell you this, mon vieux. She has been a dear. I want to talk to you, and I must return tomorrow.
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