"
And, with a few magical touches, he stamped the fleeting expression on the
canvass. He took a
handful of almonds and raisins that she held out to him—for both these young
people had given up the practice of going out for luncheon—and kept her hand
for a moment to kiss her finger-tips. She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve. I wanted
to have something to give up. You are infatuated. And in these crowded four weeks,
what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes
and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows,
only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had
plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. “We are Mr. How came you by the hurt, eh?"
"How did I come by it?—that's a nate question. "
Darrell's attention was drawn to the latter part of this speech by a slight pressure
on his foot. What the devil is her name, now we
know she isn’t you?’
‘Yolande,’ supplied Melusine. How provoking!" she added, pretending to rummage her pockets; "one
never can find a thing when one wants it. Spurlock: 'tis Roundhead, sure enough. It had neither succumbed to her nor wrathfully overwhelmed her. The
rest.
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