Detention was merry for the other detainees. There was enough contra-light to
render her ethereal. To-night I
locked up my flat at six o’clock. It
was her distinctive test of an emotional state, its interference with a kindly
normal digestion. “I wondered. . ‘Pray you, mademoiselle, can you not—’
‘No use trying to enlist Lucilla’s aid,’ snapped Roding. She felt his whole
mind sounding in ecstasy. Still, my tutor was a highly
educated scholar—my father. ”
His shoulders relaxed. Never did I need a rescue so much. Everybody, he felt, must be listening behind their
papers. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. The person
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