‘And now, monsieur le
major—’
‘I will see you to the door,’ Gerald said, looking with interest at the building
that his observant groom had told him housed a small collection of nuns. One realized indeed then
where the differences lay; the tender curves about Anna’s mouth transformed
into hard sharp lines in Annabel’s, the eyes of one, truthful and frank, the other’s
more beautiful but with less expression—windows lit with dazzling light, but
through which one saw—nothing. A victim of one of those mental typhoons that
scatter irretrievably the barriers of instinct and breeding; and he had gone on the
rocks all in a moment. All the best novels have been
written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady novelist still! There’s
only one way to get on for a woman, and that is to please men. “You are unjust and quixotic, Anna, you have no right to
treat any one as you are treating me. But why do you ask?"
"Because—" stammered the boy. ’ She
stopped, for Jack was feebly laughing. “I’m really very sorry. Her cheeks flushed a dull red. The
door leaned inward. At this piece of
information, the two subordinate officers were observed to exchange glances;
and, after a little agreeable raillery on their captain's gallantry, they begged
permission to accompany him in his visit. ’
‘I do not care any more about the portrait,’ Melusine said, opening the door to
the attic corridor that gave off onto the row of little rooms that served as private
cells for the senior nuns. ”
“Right!” he answered. "Fire! That was what drew me to you in
the beginning. You can think all round me.
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