“I knew you would feel
it,” said Miss Miniver, as they came away flushed and heated. Her name was Rhea. He was daring enough to have seized and carried him off before the
whole congregation, but he preferred waiting. On
a stool eight feet high sat a small boy in a faded blue cotton, his face like that of
young Buddha. From this sorrowful state he was aroused by a loud derisive whistle, followed by
a still louder laugh; and, looking up, he beheld the impudent countenance of Jack
Sheppard immediately before him. This hand
consigned him to destruction, but another was stretched forth to save him. Later, when the Reverend Henry Dolby entered the Spurlock room, his wife and
daughter trailing amusedly behind him, and beheld the strained eagerness on the
two young faces, he smiled inwardly and indulgently. "
Prudence felt the hands stiffen oddly; and again the thought came to her that
perhaps this poor child's father had once been, perhaps still was, in the same
category as this Taber. ‘But that will do for a start. He rolled onto his belly, freeing himself from her
hands, pushing her away. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. A thing
which had mystified her since childhood, a smouldering wonder why it should
be, and until now she had never felt the urge to investigate. She did her best to do this. Teenage boys never change, she thought to herself. He contrasted the lot of
women in general with the lot of men, presented men as patient, self-immolating
martyrs, and women as the pampered favorites of Nature.
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