"I have just parted from one," said Trenchard. "Won't you take these?" For a space he merely stared at her, perhaps wondering if she were real. And the infernal thought of that kiss returned—the softness of her lips and the cool smoothness of her cheeks. Buried under various ancestral sixteenths, smothered under modern thought, liberty of action and bewildering variety of flesh-pots, it was still alive to the extent that it needed only his present state to resuscitate it in all its peculiar force. Coldly she spoke, in a distinctly accented voice. Anna merely glanced at the coarse, flushed features, and at once shook her head. " "But a man may love his wife!" cried Spurlock, utterly bewildered. And, stretching out his hand, he lifted the dark object from the flood. He was perched on the very edge of the leather seat of the coach, his threecornered hat twisting nervously in his hands, and from time to time he passed a tongue over dry lips. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably, by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. But beyond "amicable agreement in which mutual concessions are made," the word "compromise" was as blank as the Canton wall at night. I am grateful, indeed I am. I have yet another. Why? While the front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?” His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some secret or forbidden or impossible lover. ‘Ah, yes,’ Gerald said, jumping down from the coach and waiting for the fellow to let down the steps for Melusine, ‘I had forgotten about you.
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