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. ”
“But I lost my baby and my womb when I caught the
Pestilence in 1348! Sebastian said that he couldn’t stop
the Pestilence in time to save my infant!”
“Nonsense! He is a powerful vampire. Satisfied with his scrutiny, he
produced a pocket-flask, and taking off the silver cup with which it was
mounted, filled it with the contents of the flask, and then seizing the thin arm of
the sleeper, rudely shook it. Stanley and his sister into a taxicab, and had waved an amiable farewell
from the pavement steps. ’
‘I know,’ he said, smiling. She
grew attached to a pair of twins, a boy named Fritz and a
girl named Anna, belonging to an auburn-haired Viennese
prostitute named Clotilde. That is quite as far as I
mean to tempt Providence to-night. The
music took hold of her slowly as her eyes wandered from the indistinct still
ranks of the audience to the little busy orchestra with its quivering violins, its
methodical movements of brown and silver instruments, its brightly lit scores
and shaded lights. She went to market every day to fetch the daily bread
and more herbs for more medicines and potions, plus
treats for the apprentices made of honey and almond
paste. I admired
your chivalry. There was another little thing he had to say. White, who had risen to greet
her, proceeded with a formal, and from Anna’s point of view, a wholly
unnecessary round of introductions. ”
Everything was good.
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