She
breathed into a cloth soaked in rose oil as Sebastian had
prescribed, but the smell of roses mixed obscenely with
the smell of death and decay, causing her to retch. It frightened her to behold her heart and mind
thus laid bare; but the chapter following would reassure her. “Please stop by. As the night advanced, Mr. Lady Palsworthy was the widow of
a knight who had won his spurs in the wholesale coal trade, she was of good
seventeenth-century attorney blood, a county family, and distantly related to
Aunt Mollie’s deceased curate. ’
A faint smile crossed Gerald’s lips. He saw the girl, and sprang up in bed. 186
< 23 >
A SEDUCTION, 1983
Christmas season came and went, and with it
Christmas Break. Oh God!
my limbs fail me. Gray and tranquil world! Amazing, passionless
world! A world in which days without meaning, days in which “we don’t want
things to happen” followed days without meaning—until the last thing
happened, the ultimate, unavoidable, coarse, “disagreeable. ’
‘Lord,’ Gerald murmured, awed more by the outspokenness of his hostess than
by what she had said. ’
‘What are you about now, child?’ demanded Martha apprehensively.
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