He laid down the knife, and fixed
a searching and distrustful gaze upon the writer, who continued his task,
unconscious of anything having happened. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her
complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably,
by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes
which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely
more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. "Mrs. “How did you know I haven’t
been getting any sleep --?”
“Oops, that’s my class. "You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice,
your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me
strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to
perpetrate the outrage I've just described. ’
Melusine was quite aware of the effect she had on the young lad. The ordinary
research paper, when it is not extravagant theorizing, is apt to be rather sawdusty
in texture, and Ann Veronica was delighted to find the same easy and confident
luminosity that distinguished his work for the general reader. He haunted a state between hectic dreaming
and mild delirium, and she found herself talking aloud to him. .
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