Her lover, Darrell, has embarked upon the Thames, where, if
he's not capsized by the squall, (for it's blowing like the devil,) he stands a good
chance of getting his throat cut by his pursuers—ha! ha! I tracked 'em to the
banks of the river, and should have followed to see it out, if the watermen hadn't
refused to take me. Eh bien, why did he
not repeat it? What was she to say?
‘Prudence,’ she began hesitantly, pronouncing the name in the French way,
‘has said that she will help me to—to marry an Englishman. “You have been very kind to me,” she said. “Lucy, that is so sad. She is extremely
lovely, but for her to have borne the name of the Blessed Virgin would have been
nothing short of sacrilege. This time they would call
it murder. A physiognomist, indeed, would
have likened him to that crafty animal, and it must be owned the general
formation of his features favoured such a comparison. “I want you to kiss me,” she said. Picked up the photograph, looked at it, handed it back, and never batted an eye!
The act was as clear as daylight, but the motive was as profoundly mysterious as
the race itself. Here was an appalling fact: all her previous loneliness had been
trifling beside that which now encompassed her and would for years to come. “And now,” she said, splintering the surviving piece of coal into indignant
flame-spurting fragments with one dexterous blow, “what am I to do?
“I’m in a hole!—mess is a better word, expresses it better. Will you?”
She thought, and it seemed to him she had never looked so self-disciplined
and deliberate and beautiful. “How dare you!”
They were both astonished at the other’s strength. One main avenue was for her to become a sort of salaried accessory
wife or mother, to be a governess or an assistant schoolmistress, or a very high
type of governess-nurse.
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