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"On that night, you first met me, love," said Edgeworth Bess, endeavouring to
take his hand, which he coldly withdrew. Do
you think I forget it? Didn't they help themselves to all the plate and the money
—to several of my best dresses, and amongst others, to my favourite kincob
gown; and I've never been able to get another like it! Marry, come up! I'd hang
'em all, if I could. She felt it
would save explanations if she did not state she had left her home and was
looking for employment. And in these crowded four weeks,
what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes
and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows,
only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had
plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. "Oh, Heavens!" cried Mrs. Gay," he added, turning to the poet. He pressed his lips to her with a much greater force
than she had anticipated. She felt the softest touch caress her cheek, and
a wave of tenderness engulfed Melusine.
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