Watching her strip had been delicious for him, and a part
of him enjoyed her self-consciousness acutely. "
"And all the time you loved her?"—appalled. It was
hard to associate her with the stories which he and all Paris had heard of
“Alcide. "Fifty now and fifty when I return. ” Mike said as he opened the door. ‘It is you who is the fool,’ she threw at him, whipping round again. ”
“I would forgive you a great deal more,” he answered readily, “for the sake of an
evening like this. Already the seed of a tender dream was
stirring. Do not waste time in vain
regrets, but let us remove the body, that we may fulfil her last injunctions. “A man can smoke, a man can swear;
A man scores always, everywhere. In Singapore that had been her only dissipation: a dozen pairs of silk
stockings. It was her foster brother Mike, on his way
to the bathroom. ’
‘Yes, she will. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. He sat back in an easy chair with a hand upon each of the elbows,
and looked steadfastly into the fire.
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