”
Anna hesitated no longer. Now," he added, as his
commands were reluctantly obeyed, "help me on with them. I felt somehow I’d hurt you. ‘You would say that already then you love
me?’
His glance was a caress and Melusine’s resolve weakened. ‘Seems quiet enough,’ observed the junior officer, his gaze raking the
shuttered windows of the building’s grey stone frontage. The blue jowl,
the fat-lidded eyes—now merry, now alert, now tungsten hard—the bullet head,
the pudgy fingers and the square-toed shoes were all in conformation with the
doctor's olden mental picture. ‘Well, what was I to think, miss? Martha never wrote nothing about you, and I
did ask. “You had no right—” panted Ann Veronica. “Let me see,” she said to herself, trying to control
a slight sinking of the heart, “I am going to take a room in a lodging-house
because that is cheaper. ‘Now then, Gerald, out with it. ’
He slid slowly down and collapsed to the stone floor, fainting dead away. He said that for him beauty
justified life, that he could not imagine a good action that was not a beautiful one
nor any beautiful thing that could be altogether bad. A little love from him
would be enough.
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