Two persons
possessing a more comfortable stock of assurance could not be readily found. ‘A man
who is false, who steals papers, who has a plot to take another’s name, who lies
to the Mother Abbess and to me, and above all this—’ her voice near to breaking
‘—one who is French. The venturous climber gazed for a moment at the
assemblage beneath, to ascertain that he was not discovered; and, having
satisfied himself in this particular, he stepped out more boldly. After the day in the library, he constantly
demonstrated his affections; Gianfrancesco had never
done that. “Yes,” said Ann Veronica, “yes,” to his explanation, and saw across the lawn
Lady Palsworthy talking to her aunt, and both of them staring frankly across at
her and Mr. Stanley regarded him through his glasses with something approaching
animosity. A marriage in the house proved to be exciting but extremely disorganizing. The love-songs of all the ages were
singing in her blood, the scent of night stock from the garden filled the air, and
the moths that beat upon the closed frames of the window next the lamp set her
mind dreaming of kisses in the dusk. "
"So I perceive," said Ruth, withdrawing her hands. Her
secret thoughts made some hasty, half-hearted excursions into the possibility of
telling the thing in romantic tones—Ramage was as a black villain, she as a
white, fantastically white, maiden.
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