And the grotesquest fact was that she did not so much loathe, as
experience with a quite critical condemnation this strange sensation of being
kissed. ’
The old man simply stared at her. But Jack and his companion
were already gone. ”
He digested her statement as part threat and part
promise. The
agonized mother could scarcely repress a scream at the spectacle that met her
gaze. ’
Melusine wrenched her wrists out of his hold and stepped back, digging into
her skirts, which she had adequately prepared some days ago. He was like a man beside himself. ”
Anna got up and looked at the mirror and then at the poster. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. She turned into the study, sat down at the table and fingered the pencils,
curiously stirred. ’
‘Only because you did not tell me entirely the story? That is silly.
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