But I dare not accept it. I needed a man the worst kind of way—a man I could keep for at least six months. " "My mind's made up," rejoined Jack, coldly,—"we part to-night. She is a fortune-teller and a vessel for man’s pleasure. I expect company. She did not learn the kind of looks she had been bestowing upon him at a convent. I am not a madman, or a pauper, or even an unreasonable person. . ” There was a moment’s silence. "He called me a wanton, Hoddy. And how could I come home—when he locks me in rooms and all that?” “I do wish this wasn’t going on,” said Miss Stanley, after a pause. To even presume a lustful thought about her was to ask for one’s own death. If the boy did not love the girl, why the devil had he dragged her into this marriage? Spurlock was a bit shaky bodily, but his brain was functioning clearly; and, it might be added, swiftly—as the brain always acts when confronted by a perplexing riddle. ’ She gestured at his hand, on which Roding’s makeshift bandage had been replaced by a more efficient one. Had she not seen them go forth with tracts in their pockets and grins in their beards? To set fire to his imagination, to sting his sense of chivalry into being, to awaken his manhood, she must present some irresistible project.
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