Personally, however, I
doubt if—’
‘Charvill?’ interrupted Gerald without ceremony, all his senses at once on the
alert. She gaped at its
keep, at least ten feet tall, a frightening gray coffin turned
upright. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. ”
He started back as though he had been shot. Pah! Damned Frenchified—’
‘If you say again,’ threatened Melusine, moving to meet him like a jungle cat
poised for the kill, ‘this scorn of a thing French, monsieur le baron, I shall be
compelled to give you this apoplexy of which she speaks, madame. It was a
purse. “How I am to earn enough sous for my dinner to-morrow—or failing that, what I
can sell. Ann Veronica was not aware of this literary side of her teacher; she had a little
tinge of annoyance at Miss Garvice’s advantage. "Is it you?"
"It is," replied her son, "Oh! why would you not listen to me?"
"I was distracted," replied Mrs.
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