She
guessed that he probably slept all of three hours a night at
most. ’
As if to bear her out, the door opened at this precise moment to admit Saling,
who barely announced Captain Roding before the man himself strode into the
room. The new-comer looked at Charcam. "Stay, dear Thames!—stay!" cried the little girl. "Will that do?" he added, returning it. Suddenly she became
worthy of attention again and her husband teased her and
joked with her as Sebastian openly admired her beauty,
teasing her and patting her shoulders, pulling off her
headscarf. They conversed, or more or less she interviewed him. Away off in the fields the bluesmocked peasants bent still at their toil. Plain, wide-mouthed, freckled, and
ugly, she was an instantly jealous creature, her saving
grace that she took no pains to mask her extreme dislike
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of petite, pretty girls. He displayed a quite unprofessional vein of mysticism in the matter. “Vee,” she said, “come home. It is no good waiving the thing; it is true. His five o’clock shadow was bristly
against her fingers.
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