She must be
beautiful, but beauty is only the beginning. You have just passed through rather a
severe physical struggle; just as previously to your collapse you had gone
through some terrific mental strain. She tended the twins while the Clotilde was in
Sebastian’s private chambers, a place she gave a wide
berth. The customary gold band was missing; but a soft gold Chinese ring Spurlock
had picked up in Singapore—the characters representing good luck and
prosperity—was slipped over Ruth's third finger. She realized dimly that there was no personal thing behind
his cry, that countless myriads of Mannings had “My God!”-ed with an equal
gusto at situations as flatly apprehended. ’
‘I suppose you want to take her along as well as that infernal stolen horse?’
said Hilary sarcastically. After he had endured this torture
for an hour, at a sign from Wild another hundred weight was added. “I wonder,” said Ann Veronica at last, “if I am beautiful? I wonder if I shall
ever shine like a light, like a translucent goddess?—
“I wonder—
“I suppose girls and women have prayed for this, have come to this—In
Babylon, in Nineveh. ’ He scratched
his chin as if he thought about it, but covertly kept a careful study of what he
could see of her face. En tout cas, I will not permit that you endanger yourself again for
me. To
begin with, he struck her as being the most variable person she had ever
encountered.
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