“I remember,” she said, “that the first night I saw you, you spoke of my sister as
your friend. The very old lady in the antimacassar touched Ann Veronica’s arm suddenly,
and said, in a deep, arch voice:
“Talking of love again; spring again, love again. But it was only
when that damned scoundrel nearly spitted you in the chapel—’ He broke off
and, to her intense satisfaction she saw he was not as much in command of
himself as he would have her believe. Poor young
lady! She trembled too, and was unable to give her evidence. 1. “I have loved you,” he was saying, “ever since you sat on that gate and talked. Her features
were meagre, and ghastly white, and had the fixed and horrible stamp of
insanity. I’ve been thinking, you know—I’m not
sure that primarily the perception of beauty isn’t just intensity of feeling free
from pain; intensity of perception without any tissue destruction. ‘You see, it is that I have a plan to marry an
Englishman. Then her
head disappeared suddenly in her hands, and her shoulders shook violently. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous
board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. . ‘Do you think I could bear to be without you for a moment longer? I am quite
jealous of Melusine taking up all your attention. "
"Your own was equally so," said Jackson ironically. "I don't exactly know the rights of that affair," rejoined Griffin, with some
curiosity.
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