“You don’t want to go?”
“No. He did
not pocket it, but sat hefting it lightly from hand to hand, watching the girl
thoughtfully. It
doesn’t mean that these men deserve to die for whatever
they have done, John. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes. Gerald began to ease forward, deciding just how he would accost her. He wanted
to put on his overcoat and come after you and look for you—in London. If
you had lived twenty years ago you would have been called a Young Person, and
it would have been your chief duty in life not to know, never to have heard of,
and never to understand. ’
***
It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the
closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. ‘To find what?’ demanded Gerald. "
"Come, Sir!" thundered the latter, "no trifling! Perhaps," he added, opening a
warrant, "you'll obey this mandate?"
"A warrant!" ejaculated Kneebone, starting to his feet. She resolved
not to allow him or her hunger detract from the
performance at hand, as it would be a special one, an
evening to be remembered in the gray days to follow like
a precious jewel. Besides, he was a Yale man.
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