It was interesting to see
how different and characteristic his mode of approach was to all sorts of
questions that interested her, and it was amusing to discover this other side to the
life of a Morningside Park inhabitant. Perhaps you'll give me in return some token, by which I may
remind you of this occurrence, in case we meet again. The London backgrounds, in Bloomsbury and
Marylebone, against which these people went to and fro, took on, by reason of
their gray facades, their implacably respectable windows and window-blinds,
their reiterated unmeaning iron railings, a stronger and stronger suggestion of the
flavor of her father at his most obdurate phase, and of all that she felt herself
fighting against. A faint buzz above the ceiling witnessed that
petrography, too, was active. At length, about three o'clock, as the first glimmer of dawn became visible
through the barred casements of the round-house, the rattling of bolts and chains
at the outer door told that some one was admitted. ”
“Who are you?”
“I am a friend of Miss Pellissier’s,” Courtlaw answered. How did you get your luggage out of the house? Wasn’t
it—wasn’t it rather in some respects—rather a lark? It’s one of my regrets for my
lost youth. ’
‘Then why,’ demanded Melusine, ‘did you do it?’
Gerald closed his eyes. Folding his arms, he placed his back against the door, and burst into a loud
laugh. Why am I here—thirty years of loneliness?
Because I know women, the good and the bad; and because I could not have the
good, I would not take the bad. It came with an extreme effect of re-discovery, a remarkable novelty.
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