“He was a
friend of your sister’s, was he not?”
“I never heard her mention his name,” she answered. Supposing they find you
and take you away?—and she unprepared? Have you thought of that? Why did
you marry her?"
"God alone knows!"
"And you don't love her! What kind of a woman do you want, anyhow?"—with
rising anger. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. He was accompanied by a young man of about
seven-and-twenty, who carried his easel, set it in its place, laid the canvass upon
it, opened the paint box, took out the brushes and palette, and, in short, paid him
the most assiduous attention. You
women, with your tricks of evasion, you’re a sex of swindlers. The other bona roba, known amongst her
companions as Mistress Poll Maggot, was a beauty on a much larger scale,—in
fact, a perfect Amazon. I hope
you won’t mind if I say first that I think it does me an extraordinary honor that
you should think of any one like myself so highly and seriously, and, secondly,
that I wish it had not been written. "
So saying, he violently shut and locked the door. Michelle laughed, saying
that she could only guess. Capes was an exceptionally fair man of two or three-and-thirty, so ruddily
blond that it was a mercy he had escaped light eyelashes, and with a minor but
by no means contemptible reputation of his own. It was interesting to see
how different and characteristic his mode of approach was to all sorts of
questions that interested her, and it was amusing to discover this other side to the
life of a Morningside Park inhabitant. "
"Pshaw! you'd do as much for me any day, and think no more about it. "
"Are you a real nurse?"
"Yes. I can’t imagine what
possessed you, Veronica. ‘That’s better,’ said Gerald, and let her go.
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