”
She drove off in a little fiacre, nodding and smiling at Sir John, who remained
upon the Avenue. ‘Of course I see that,’ she said impatiently. We'll see whether
he'll get rid of his new bonds?" he added with a brutal laugh, which was echoed
by the bystanders. Luck. It had neither succumbed to her nor wrathfully overwhelmed her. Each became frightfully aware of
the other as a plastic energetic body, of the strong muscles of neck against cheek,
of hands gripping shoulder-blade and waist. Her thoughts were deflected from Vivie Warren by the peculiar behavior of a
middle-aged gentleman in Piccadilly. There
are certain smells, certain tinges to the air. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. And taking the keys, he departed on the
errand. She came to spend hours with the bastard
children that the women brought, dressing and feeding
the tiny ones, inventing games for the older ones. There were words,
then, that ran on indefinitely, with reversals? Here they meant one thing; there,
the exact opposite. He was a man tout à fait capable, this Gerald. Lucy looked at the stains on
the threadbare carpeting to distract herself, embarrassed
to her core. Women! He is
always chanting the praise of some discovery; sometimes it will be a native,
often a white woman out of the stews.
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