He would raise her up once again, ply her
with silks and jewels again, all of the accoutrements of the
new generation: the cars, the toys, the restaurants, and the
prestige. “Why shouldn’t one face the facts of one’s self?”
She stood up. The
watermen, who manned the larger wherry, immediately shipped their oars,
grappled with the drifting skiff, and held it fast. What would happen to her? Would her soul be shaken, twisted,
hypnotized?—as it had been those other times? Music—that took out of her the
sense of reality, whirled her into the clouds, that gave to her will the directless
energy of a chip of wood on stormy waters. “I don’t see there’s any getting away from the fact that you and I love each
other,” he said, slowly. It was in no sense confessional; it was a state of mind in the
patient the doctor had already anticipated. I love you all the more for the streak of
sheer devil in you. “Where should we go?”
Knowing that they would be dogged wherever they
went, she volunteered, “Let’s go to the Big Apple. Chapter XXVIII
THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE”
There was a strange and ominous murmur of voices, a shuffling of feet in the
gallery, a silence, which was like the silence before a storm. "O God!" he
exclaimed, "I am severely punished. The entrance was barred against them; and they had the
additional mortification of hearing Sheppard's loud laughter at their
discomfiture. It looked as if it had taken its
world for granted and prospered on that assumption—a world in which children
were trained to obey their elders and the wills of women over-ruled as a matter
of course. This child at once alarmed and thrilled them. The thought passed through his mind even as he started to cross the terrace at
a jogtrot, moving to head her off.
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