Then came the
shock of the knowledge that soon he would be going upon his way, that there
would be no one to depend upon her; and all the old loneliness came smothering
down upon her again. ”
“We’ll have, thank God! ten myriad days to tell each other things. Your father has forbidden you to go!’”
“Well?”
“She said, ‘I hate being horrid to you and father, but I feel it my duty to go to
that ball!’”
“Felt it her duty!”
“‘Very well,’ I said, ‘then I wash my hands of the whole business. We’ll run away
together, we’ll elope. ’
‘You mean imbecile, don’t you?’ Gerald said, and turned his head to share the
joke with Melusine. "
"Deferred!" echoed Sheppard. 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.
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