That old chap has a remarkable
range in reading. "
"Ah!" shrieked Lady Trafford. Yes, there was
someone there. "
He did not pause to consider how she had learned that he had imagination; he
comprehended only the direct challenge. Lucy's ears were singing. She remembered that she had not gone to bed until two o'clock in the morning. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. 59
He was not present during the night the next morning,
or the next, or the next. “Michelle, it’s me, Lucy. I know all about it. But her heart kept on sinking. To go to him, to console him! But she stirred not from her hiding
place. It was debauching, this—a devilish art which drew
such strange allurements from a face and figure almost Madonna-like in their
simplicity. ”
“The world has no sense of what is due to youth and courage. Nearly all the individual works in the collection are in the
public domain in the United States.
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