On weighing the matter over, he grew so uneasy that he resolved to
descend, and inform him of his misgivings. He reached for
her chin and lifted it up. Manning; secondly, by some measure or other, she meant
to go on with her studies, not at the Tredgold Schools but at the Imperial
College; and, thirdly, she was, as an immediate and decisive act, a symbol of just
exactly where she stood, a declaration of free and adult initiative, going that
night to the Fadden Ball. And now I find, when it is too late,
that I might have deserved you—that I am as well born as Thames Darrell. The looming face was
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over her own once again, and arms as strong as iron bars
held her down. Why had he kissed her? What had led him into that? Neither love nor passion—
utter blankness so far as reducing the act to terms. Much to her annoyance, therefore, Winifred was left alone with the woollendraper, who following up a maxim of his own, "that nothing was gained by too
much bashfulness," determined to profit by the opportunity. She had even tried a needle and a catheter on a victim
once, but had found that the process was so frustrating
and slow that she barely gained any sustenance and had
done the worst thing imaginable: wasted a kill. They had cried a little, both. What was it in her heart or mind or soul that went out to this man?
Music—was that it? Was he powerless to stir her without the gift?
But hadn't he fascinated her by his talk, gentle and winning? Ah,
but that had been after he had played for her. I
know where everything valuable is kept. I’m not such a bad sort.
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