Will you be wanting me alone?" asked Ah Cum. Yesterday this glorious
creature had loved him; to-day she was only friendly. How I envied Gianfrancesco on his
wedding night, how I writhed in agony just thinking
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about his intimacies with you! Then you became
pregnant, and there he was, posturing and gloating like
the rest of the family, my divinations of a boy in your
womb pronounced. “I hate you because you are the Devil! Rot in Hell!”
She was shocked at her own accusation, how she had
savored the words. He glanced at Ruth (who had stood with her back
to the wall, pinned there throughout the contest by terror and the knowledge of
her own helplessness), then at the bronze menace, and calculated correctly that
this particular adventure was finished. But before the child could be
committed to her care, it was wrested from the carpenter by Rowland. Her life hangs upon a thread, and this may snap it. You were afraid of me, afraid that I should have
been shocked, afraid of the scandal. Then Mr. “What
have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism,
crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline
or respect for authority to cover me!”
It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. "
By this time Caliban had returned, and Jack appeared at the hatch. "I couldn't go on!"
"You'll need something more than courage now. The girl
who had just left the room was as great a mystery to him now as on the
afternoon when he had met her in Piccadilly and taken her to tea.
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