Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face, and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind, the word “meretricious. ” “I wasn’t jesting,” said Capes, abruptly. ’ The girl bit her lip and backed a little, while her husband shifted to stand at her side. There was a lapse of time, an interval of blackness; then he found his hand in hers and she was leading him at a run up the side of the mountain. But this was but a momentary gleam of personal application, and at this time she followed it up no further. ’ ‘Sport!’ grumbled her betrothed, but he accompanied them across the ballroom all the same. We propose to disregard all our ties, all our obligations, all the established prohibitions of society, and begin life together afresh. His sister appeared. It was among artistic people. “Not for these things, O Ann Veronica, have you revolted,” it said; “and this is not your appropriate purpose. Instead, God had sent her Sebastianus, a man who had sold his soul to the Devil to gain eternal life, or perhaps he was even the Devil himself. For what could be more ironical than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber? The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and wormwood! He stood up and rapped his pipe on the rail. Besides, the sun had gone in and it looked like rain.
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