Even in her hatred, she began to
realize that Sebastian’s intelligence was much greater than
Gianfrancesco’s. Her time and
effort was justly rewarded, because the hard cold facts she
knew about neighborhood intrigues were better than
fictional soap operas. So I am already no longer the girl you knew at
Morningside Park. At this juncture, a cry burst from the child, who, nearly smothered by the weight
imposed upon him, only recovered the use of his lungs as Wood altered the
position of the bundle. A married man!—the kind I've never been able to lure down there! But
keep your temper in check. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. To be
sure, he was attentive, respectful; but in his conduct there was none of that
shameless camaraderie of a man who loved his woman and didn't care a hang if
all the world knew it. Her hair once more was arranged with its old simplicity. ”
He held out his hand obediently. ‘We don’t
know who she is. I am fairly well hardened in iniquity—your iniquity, Annabel—but I
decline to have a husband thrust upon me. You are too credulous.
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