They had not so far been of
much personal interest to Gerald, but tonight was different. ” He dared, his nostrils flaring. What Miss Miniver would
have called the Higher Truth supervenes. They trudged and
talked, and Manning struggled, as he said, to “get the hang of it all. He had not been successful as the world counted success; the fat
bank-account, the filled waiting room of which he had once dreamed, had never
materialized except in the smoke of his evening pipe. That he should pay forty pounds to help this girl who preferred another man
was no less in his eyes than a fraud and mockery that made her denial a
maddening and outrageous disgrace to him. “She has gone down into
the country. She leaned over and kissed his cheek
innocently. A young lad—Roding took him for a footman, or a groom by the neat black
garb—was halted some paces away from Valade, his hat in his hand as he made
pretence of fanning himself.
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