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. But that, and that sort of thing,
is just a day-dream. Charvill did nothing to ease their path and it was left to the man to open
negotiations, which he did by producing a set of folded papers, slowly
approaching the general, and holding them out at arms’ length. His inclinations prompted him most
decidedly to take the vacant chair. It was Ramage, the occupant of the big
house at the end of the Avenue. ‘It’s my belief she
is a nun. ’
Triumph leapt in Gerald’s chest. The stoppage had materially lessened the distance between him and his pursuers,
who now amounted to more than a hundred persons, many of whom carried
lanterns and links. "Rot, weren't they?"
"No. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. Now, as she stared at the image of her own face, she
recalled something Major Alderley had said. Lady Palsworthy was the widow of
a knight who had won his spurs in the wholesale coal trade, she was of good
seventeenth-century attorney blood, a county family, and distantly related to
Aunt Mollie’s deceased curate. Stanley,’ I said. She was crushed with a sense of her own terrible impotency. .
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