Deserted by his older companion in iniquity, and instigator to
crime, he did not know what might become of him; nor, as we have observed,
was the sad spectacle he had just witnessed, without effect. Pole coolies
came joggling along with bobbing blocks of jade—white jade, splashed and
veined with translucent emerald green. His invalid wife and her
money had been only the thin thread that held his life together; beaded on that
permanent relation had been an inter-weaving series of other feminine
experiences, disturbing, absorbing, interesting, memorable affairs. She went to her room and changed the
loose morning gown in which she had lunched for a dark walking dress. The girl in the forward chair raised herself a little, the better to see the gorgeous
blue palanquin of the dimly visible bride. A fire enveloped her, a fire which was strangely
healing, filling her heart with warmth, blotting out the menace of the world. Anna, quitting her
chair, dropped on her knees by her sister’s side and took her hand. I believe I am doomed to be an
old maid. It was he
who saw them first coming down the room—Annabel in a wonderful white satin
gown in front, and Sir John stiff, unbending, disapproving, bringing up the rear. She pulled away
from him, placing her fingers on his lips for a moment. She could feel teenage
girls from all corners of the room tensing, preparing to
shriek. He hadn't followed this angle of thought
in ten years: what he might have been, with a little shrewd selfishness.
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