It was debauching, this—a devilish art which drew
such strange allurements from a face and figure almost Madonna-like in their
simplicity. Still, thereafter she had avoided Morgan's; partly out of fear and partly because
of her father's mandate. From the Sha-mien to the yacht, Spurlock had
uttered no word; though, even in the semi-darkness, no gesture or word of Ruth's
escaped him. Sheppard was
enabled to take possession of the premises. ‘I understand you have not been in England very long,’ he said in English,
noting that Madame raised her fan and lowered her gaze demurely. One main avenue was for her to become a sort of salaried accessory
wife or mother, to be a governess or an assistant schoolmistress, or a very high
type of governess-nurse. He looked like a French
boy soldier she had once glimpsed marching towards his
death in one of the battles they would later call the
Hundred Years War. The man had favoured him with
a brief nod, but the girl had gone so far as to offer a tiny smile, and a look under
her lashes with which not even Gerald, for all his scant interest in female society,
could fail to be familiar. ‘Oh no, you don’t,’ said Gerald in a low tone. “Oh, dammit!” he remarked, “dammit!” with great bitterness as he faced it. On examining the door, he found it secured by a large rusty lock, which he
endeavoured to pick with the nail he had just acquired; but all his efforts proving
ineffectual, he removed the plate that covered it with the bar, and with his fingers
contrived to draw back the bolt. But something
instinctive prevented that, and with the finest resolve not to be “silly” and
prudish she found that whenever he became at all bold in this matter she became
severely scientific and impersonal, almost entomological indeed, in her method;
she killed every remark as he made it and pinned it out for examination.
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