Her eye met Miss Stanley’s understandingly, and she was if anything a trifle more affectionate in her greeting to Ann Veronica. He was always word-building, a metaphorist, lavish with singing adjectives; but often he built in confusion because it was difficult to describe something beautiful in a new yet simple way. And yet, she would be easy prey in her present state of mind to any plausible, attractive scoundrel. “Cheveney wouldn’t have anything to say about it, as it happens,” he remarked, a little grimly. "Shall I never banish those horrible phantoms from my couch—the father with his bleeding breast and dripping hair!—the mother with her wringing hands and looks of vengeance and reproach!—And must another be added to their number—their son! Horror!—let me be spared this new crime! And yet the gibbet—my name tarnished—my escutcheon blotted by the hangman!—No, I cannot submit to that. But no matter how you phrase it, the end is the same. That night in his den he smoked many pipes. ” “Who says I don’t? Didn’t you used to live in Arkansas?” “Alabama. That was an admission all right. Was he pleased?” “Calmly! He said—you won’t mind my telling you?” “Not a bit. I get the feeling that you are special, so alone, so beautiful that I must get to the bottom of you if it takes my whole life. Manning would on no account do, though he was tall and dark and handsome and kind, and thirty-five and adequately prosperous, and all that a husband should be. She is a woman chosen in youth for her beauty and her intelligence. I leaned over and looked at him—he was quite still.
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