"
"You shall take my life first," rejoined Sheppard. His arm entered the round window of the white haze
of her vision, his wrist spouting blood in currents,
dripping on the stone floor. ”
“How the hell did you learn to play like that?”
“Lots of practice, John. I suspect he has a bit of vanity. She wants to
be free—she wants to be legally and economically free, so as not to be subject to
the wrong man; but only God, who made the world, can alter things to prevent
her being slave to the right one. I’m going up
to London with the Widgetts to that ball. This adventure of yours has gone on
altogether too long; it has become a serious distress to both your aunt and
myself. With a swirl of her
floral chintz petticoats, she placed herself in the capacious window seat,
accepted the glass Gerald handed to her, and smiled mischievously up at him. Perhaps the day of her
recompense was at hand. He would
discuss something she had been reading, and he would give her some
unexpected angle, setting a fictional character before her with astonishing
clearness. Something he
saw there had a curious effect upon him. Asking her way once or twice, she passed
along Fleet Street into the Strand, and crossed Trafalgar Square, into Piccadilly.
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