“Is Lady Lescelles in?” he asked the butler. ’
Gerald drew his breath in sharply as Lord Charvill took a step towards his
granddaughter, thrusting out his head. ” She replied gently. And the way
he and the other men looked at her!
The desire was plain on their faces, so many noblemen
reduced to their simplest elements! They looked at her
sideways, they looked at her backside, scanning her blue
eyes and even looking right into her face. She stood, as it were, directed doorward, with
her eyes watching every movement, listening to him, repelled by him and yet
dimly understanding. Men
usually do. He
would ask her to come to dinner with him in some little Italian or semiBohemian restaurant in the district toward Soho, or in one of the more stylish
and magnificent establishments about Piccadilly Circus, and for the most part
she did not care to refuse. ‘What would you? The nuns they would not
believe me, and so it was not possible for me to stay. The moment my escape is known, a large
reward will be placed on my head. “It means that I have had enough of this slavery,” she declared. ‘—and I love your raven hair, and your bright blue eyes, and your very
kissable lips—’ suiting the action to the words ‘—and I love the crazy way you
speak English, and the way you curse at me. "
"Then you are hurt," cried the carpenter in alarm. ‘Then it must certainly be Eugénie. Then fury claimed her and she could no longer pretend.
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