”
“I mean—”
“I behaved like an idiot, that’s all. He might have been a
complete innocent, she did not know and did not bother
to find out. But if she smiled at all it was with her eyes. But I don’t care; I haven’t a spark of shame. Babies and females
have got to keep hold of somebody or go under—anyhow, for the next few
generations. “Let go!” she gasped at him, a blaze of
anger. "Take it," cried Wood, holding the infant towards her; "take it, and fly. "
Sheppard said nothing, but a disdainful smile curled his lips. “It seems so unfair,” she said, “to take all you offer me and give so little in
return. ”
She lingered over her tea, and glancing around, a sudden reflection on the
change in her surroundings from the scene of her last night’s supper brought a
faint, humorous smile to her lips. So, after the dinner was over, Spurlock took her home; and worked far into the
night. ‘That is good,’ she said with satisfaction, ‘for I was compelled on Saturday to
abandon the chase. "Though
you lorded it over that fond fool, Mrs. Do you
know, I am beginning to believe that we only exist nowadays by the tolerance of
these millionaire tradesmen.
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