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She was too distressed to bear this. Terror had laid a paralyzing hand upon her,
fear kept her almost unconscious of the curious glances which she was
continually attracting. Gerald, whose French was adequate from his military service abroad, was able
to respond suitably to such remarks as the ladies addressed to him, but was less
exercised by their fashionable dress than their decidedly careworn appearance. "
"This is folly," cried Jack, controlling himself by a powerful effort. Yet, stay! There is one thing I wish you to do. 102
When he took her out, he was proud of her. Mr. Their
future would be glorious; he saw it in their eyes; he saw it in the beauty of their
young heads. He stared at her stupidly, forgetting to
guard against the tactics he had come to expect from her. That capitaine has
arranged it all. The joy of being loved
thrilled her as nothing before had ever done, a curious abstract joy which had
nothing in it at that moment of regret or even pity. Women are not in the world
in the same sense that men are—fighting individuals in a scramble. Perhaps it
had been pick-pocketed or jostled from her dress in a
hunt. All that she had ever
loved were gone, except Sebastian.
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