The lights of the Champs Elysées and the Place de la
Concorde, suggestive, brilliant, seductive, shone like an army of fireflies against
the deep cool background of the night. Voilà tout. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. Soon they came to treat Lucy almost as mother,
pulling hard at her brown curls and laughing delightedly
as they sprang back into their spiral shape. Part 4
But presently, as she sat on the one antimacassared red silk chair and surveyed
her hold-all and bag in that tidy, rather vacant, and dehumanized apartment, with
its empty wardrobe and desert toilet-table and pictureless walls and stereotyped
furnishings, a sudden blankness came upon her as though she didn’t matter, and
had been thrust away into this impersonal corner, she and her gear. And this was an adventure of
which he had dreamed from boyhood: aboard a windjammer on the South Seas. Ruth was not a woman; she was a phenomenon. ”
“I am really curious,” she persisted. ‘Dieu du ciel, for what do
you take me?’
‘I don’t know,’ he threw at her. ”
“Is my sister’s Christian name, then, of so much importance to you?” she asked
with a faint smile. And she was about as capable of intelligent argument as a runaway
steam-roller. There was more shouting. ’
‘But Gérard knows.
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