"Why,
I should expect to purchase the entire freehold of the Mint for less money. He insisted on buying this girl for two
hundred mex. Bodies! Bodies! Horrible things! We are souls. She studied her form in the full length mirror, assessed
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her body as one would that of a prize calf, trying to see it
through his eyes, through the eyes of desire. That
she had not bought one piece of linen subtly established in Ah Cum's mind the
fact that she had no home, that the instinct was not there, or she would have
made some purchase against the future. Wood, however, was too much excited to attend to the caution. “And what is it all about, Veronica?” he asked, with a
deliberate note of irony, looking at her a little quizzically over his glasses. ‘Pardon, mademoiselle, but perhaps your father went to England, after all, and
—’
‘My father went to Italy,’ interrupted Melusine, her heart tightening with the
familiar sensation of loss. “Please search everywhere,” she said. ”
“Oh, well!” he said, a little doubtfully, “it’s just a phase,” and bent down and
rested his hand on her shoulder for a moment, with his heart beating and his
nerves a-quiver. “I don’t think you can have heard me, Vee,” he said, with
intensely controlled fury.
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