Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical
outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency,
regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to
Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked
well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and
sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the
incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. "She is
in his power, and I am here, chained hand and foot, unable to assist her. It is just the aim I have had in view all the time. You know not in what dark places my life has been
cast; with what crimes it has been stained. She was going through
a new world with him side by side. "You two … both of you! But for you I couldn't
have done it. "Aye—to pretend to her that you don't care. I may
want you. Impassive by nature and training, he was
conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by
a dull background of disappointment. He drew her close up to him with a strong, steady pull. His attention was focused on Melusine’s transfixed stare and he forgot to say any
of the things he had planned to say. ”
She seated herself in a loose and easy attitude and surveyed the backs of the
Avenue houses; then her eyes wandered to where the new red-and-white villas
peeped among the trees. The Times slipped from his fingers.
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