”
“My dear young lady,” the official said irritably, “this man would not have your
name and address in his pocket without an object. His imperturbable demeanour in the fight has been well portrayed by
Captain Godfrey, who here condescends to lay aside his stilts. “You poor child!” he said; “don’t
you see the infinite folly of these proceedings? Think! Think of the love and
affection you abandon! Think of your aunt, a second mother to you. Wanted her out of
the way because he had been afraid of her, afraid of himself! He, at fifty-four!
Then into this void poured a flaming anger, a blind and unreasoning anger. “You didn’t expect that I should kiss you?”
“How was I to know that a man would—would think it was possible—when
there was nothing—no love?”
“How did I know there wasn’t love?”
That silenced her for a moment. “Women know these things by
instinct,” she answered. I did what I
could to comfort her but she died in terrible pain. He pictured himself
visiting the girl in this shabby little home of her aunt’s—she had told him that it
was shabby—and he recalled that delicious little smile with which she would
surely greet him, a smile which seemed to be a matter of the eyes as well as the
lips. No matter what happened, whether the road
smoothed out or became still rougher, he would always be carrying this secret
with him; and each time he recalled it, the rack. It
suited him to dampen the spirits of any who sought to impose upon him, as these
relics of the loathed family of Valade seemed like to do. Was there
no echo anywhere in Miss Stanley’s pacified brain? Those empty rooms, if they
were empty, were the equivalents of astoundingly decorated predecessors. She ignored his question. "Quilt!—Mendez!—Where are you?" vociferated Wild, sounding his whistle for
the third time.
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