”
Ann Veronica flung away from her hand, and the pepper-pot on the tray upset,
sending a puff of pepper into the air and instantly filling them both with an
intense desire to sneeze. His idea was to get behind this sustained listlessness. He remembered little whispered speeches of hers, so like the Annabel of
Paris, so unlike the woman he loved, a hundred little things should have told him
long ago. “I was very foolish to have been
deceived even for a moment. During the narration Jack's features lighted up, and an expression, which would
have been in vain looked for in repose, was instantly caught and depicted by the
skilful artist. He was always drawing contrasts
between a woman’s lot and a man’s, and treating her as a wonderful new
departure in this comparison. Only in her eyes there seemed to be some
apprehension of the fact that the young man’s clothes and manners were alike
undesirable things. The Dawn Pearl! To be
with her constantly, with no diversions to serve as barricades! Damn McClintock
for putting this thought in his head—that Ruth loved him!
He flung himself upon the beach, face downward, his outflung hands digging
into the sand: which was oddly like his problem—he could not grip it. It took all my self control not to let my
hands wander. Manning, with an air of emerging from an elaborate
demonstration, “and so each of us must, under existing conditions, being
chivalrous indeed to all women, choose for himself his own particular and
worshipful queen. Then he looked towards his
granddaughter once more, who had flounced away to the window at her greataunt’s interruption. She did not wince. “What are your objections?” she said.
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